Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
To climb ______ tree is not to climb ______ mountain.

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

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

a/a

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 "a" will be used as the sentence is referring to something general.

Similarly, article "a" will be used in the SECOND Blank because mountain is a common noun and article 'a' is used before common noun.