Choose the sentences in which the articles are used correctly:
(A) Mama came back from Delhi on the Rajdhani Express.
(B) The Rann of Kutch turns white in winter.
(C) Ananya grew up in Pune and speaks the Marathi well.
(D) Rafiq’s uncle has worked in the United Arab Emirates for ten years.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A), (B) and (D) only
(A) Mama came back from Delhi on the Rajdhani Express. — Correct.
- “The” comes before the name of a train.
- The Rajdhani Express is the name of a train.
(B) The Rann of Kutch turns white in winter. — Correct.
- “The” comes before the name of a desert.
- The Rann of Kutch is a salt desert in Gujarat.
(C) Ananya grew up in Pune and speaks the Marathi well. — Incorrect.
- The name of a language takes no article.
- Here “Marathi” is the language Ananya speaks, so “the” must go.
- Correct form: Ananya grew up in Pune and speaks Marathi well.
(D) Rafiq’s uncle has worked in the United Arab Emirates for ten years. — Correct.
- Most country names take no article, but a country whose name is plural takes “the”.
- “Emirates” is plural, so the country is “the United Arab Emirates”.