Which of the following sentences use the articles correctly?
(A) Our gurdwara serves free langar to the poor every day.
(B) Meera was thrilled to get an A in her maths test.
(C) The Professor Iyer teaches us physics on Mondays and Thursdays.
(D) The Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A), (B) and (D) only
(A) Our gurdwara serves free langar to the poor every day. — Correct.
- “The” before a describing word such as “poor” means all people of that kind.
- “The poor” means people who are poor.
(B) Meera was thrilled to get an A in her maths test. — Correct.
- A letter of the alphabet takes “a” or “an” by the sound of its name.
- The letter A is said “ay”, which is a vowel sound, so it takes “an”.
(C) The Professor Iyer teaches us physics on Mondays and Thursdays. — Incorrect.
- A title joined to a person’s name, such as Professor Iyer or Doctor Sen, takes no article.
- The given sentence puts “the” before “Professor Iyer”, so “the” must go.
- Correct form: Professor Iyer teaches us physics on Mondays and Thursdays.
(D) The Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950. — Correct.
- “The” comes before the name of one particular document that there is only one of.
- India has only one Constitution, so it is “the Constitution of India”.