Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
Kate ate ______ meat with _______ vegetables for ______ second course. [Basic]

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

Answer 1

The correct option is A no article/no article/the

* Option A 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, "no article" or "zero article" will be used because zero article is used 'Before the name of meals'

For instance: Dinner, lunch' and here meat is a meal. Therefore, no article will be used.

Similarly,In the second blank,'no article' will be used because no article is used before the names of vegetables, plants etc.

In the third blank, article "the" will be used because article "the" is used to refer to a DEFINITE person or a thing. It is also used before ordinals such as "first", "second" etc. Here, 'second course' is definite and specifically mentioned.

Hence, option (A) is correct.