Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
On the New Year Eve, some of ________ pupils stayed at _________ school later than usual.

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

Answer 1

The correct option is A the/no article

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, article "the" will be used because article 'the' is used to refer to something DEFINITE. In this sentence, speaker is referring to some specified number of pupils.

In the second blank, "no article or zero article" will be used because 'no article' is used with 'school, colleges' ( if name of the school is not mentioned or there is no use of 'of').