Article MCQ Questions and Answers | English Aptitude MCQ

Here, the sentence talks about the 'police officer' as general class of people like the first person's cousin. Since we are referring to general things, we need to use the definite article 'a'.

Both the blanks will take 'the' article because of the particularity of the news channel and news.

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

No article is used after name of a country or a city.

The article 'an' is used when the noun is known only to the speaker, it is an indefinite noun, and it begins with a vowel/vowel sound. Hence Option B is correct.

'A/An' is used as an indefinite article for a thing or person when the reader doesn't know which one we are referring to out of many nouns. It states the random nature of the subject.
Option B is correct as 'An' is used as the article for words with a vowel sound.

The definite article, 'the' is used to point to a particular noun. In the given sentence, the word, 'police' refer to a particular group of person.
Therefore, use of the definite article, 'the' is correct and option C is correct.

Generally we don't use any article when a country name is mentioned but here 'United Kingdom' suggest a particular place where the product is made and therefore 'the' will be correct article to use.

Here, 'Indians' is a specific group of people belonging to India. Hence, 'the' article will be used.

The noun 'village' is made specific by the words 'where I was born'. Hence we use the article 'the' and option B is wrong.
When the noun is spoken of in general sense, we omit the article. 'By car' is an expression that indicates the mode of travel. It does not talk about a car. Hence this blank won't require an article.
'Town' is a non-specific noun. The phrase 'a big town' describes 'Wellington' and is not specific on its own. Hence we use the article 'a'.