Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
_______ Browns invited me to ______ dinner.

• A. no article/the
• B. the/a
• C. no article/a
• D. the/no article
• E. the/an

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

the/no article

OPTION "D" is the correct answer.

EXPLANATION:

There are two types of articles:

DEFINITE ARTICLE (THE) : Article 'the' is used to refer to a DEFINITE thing or person.

INDEFINITE ARTICLE(A/AN): Article 'a/an' is used to refer to a thing or person in general. For instance: man, door etc.

Article 'a' is used with consonant sounds whereas article 'an' is used with vowel sounds.

In the first blank, article "the" will be used because "BROWNS" belong to a particular family.

In the second blank, "no article" will be used because 'dinner' is a meal and we do not use articles before the names of meals.