Article MCQ Questions and Answers | English Aptitude MCQ

In the first blank, 'an' will be used because 'man' is a common noun and 'unarmed' begins with vowel sound.
In the second blank, 'a' will be used because 'jewellery shop' is general and unspecific.
In the third blank, 'the' will be used because now the readers know who the 'thief' is.

The first blank won't take any article as 'modern history' is the name of a discipline. The second, third, fourth and fifth blank shall take 'the' as the sentence talks about a specific time's (history) particular event (Turkish Independence War) which was studied by the speaker at a particular place (university) in a particular year (last year).

The definite article 'the' is used before specific things/places. Here, we are referring to a specific airport.

In the given sentence, 'nice morning' and 'walk' both begins with consonant sound when pronounced and both are unspecific. Therefore, 'a' is the suitable article to fill in both the blanks.

Option C is correct as 'The' is used with words with superlatives. 'Oldest' is superlative.

Here, 'Umbrella' is a general thing and therefore indefinite article will be used. Word after the blank starts with vowel sound. 'An' article will be used.

Since there is only one pair of trousers which has both green and black colour in it and the indefinite article 'a' has already been used before green no article should be put before black. If we put article before black, then it would change the meaning of the sentence and it will indicate that Shelly has two trousers one is green and one is black.

Here, the sentence talks about the 'umpire' as general class of people like 'Mr. Sharma'. Since we are referring to general things, we need to use the indefinite article 'a/an'. The word 'umpire' starts with vowel sound and therefore article 'an' will be used.

Since we do not know the identity of the 'hermit' and the 'cave', indefinite article will be used. As both the words begin with consonant sound 'a' article will be used.

Definite article is used with positions, directions, numbers etc. Hence, 'capital' will follow 'the' article.