Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
There were _______ three shelters on _______ cliff.

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

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

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 no article is when there is "noun + number". In the given sentence, three shelters indicate noun + number.

In the second blank, article "the" will be used because article "the" indicates something specific and cliff is a definite noun.