Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
______ United States of America is _______ country. It is in North America.

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

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

the/a

Option "B" 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 it is an exception. With the Countries' names starting with 'State, United and Republic', article "the" will be used.

In the second blank, country is common noun, it is something general, therefore, article "a" will be used.