Choose the sentences in which the articles are used correctly:
(A) Our cousin works on a cargo ship that sails across the Indian Ocean.
(B) Ankit is studying for an B.Com. degree at a college in Indore.
(C) Kavya plays the badminton with her cousins every evening.
(D) This stall sells the cheapest vegetables in the whole market.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (D) only
(A) Our cousin works on a cargo ship that sails across the Indian Ocean. — Correct.
- The name of an ocean takes “the” before it.
- “The Indian Ocean” is right.
(B) Ankit is studying for an B.Com. degree at a college in Indore. — Incorrect.
- A short form like “B.Com.” is read with the sound of its first letter, here “bee”.
- “Bee” begins with a consonant sound, so it takes “a”.
- Correct form: Ankit is studying for a B.Com. degree at a college in Indore.
(C) Kavya plays the badminton with her cousins every evening. — Incorrect.
- The names of games and sports take no article, even after “play”.
- Correct form: Kavya plays badminton with her cousins every evening.
(D) This stall sells the cheapest vegetables in the whole market. — Correct.
- A word that compares one thing with all the others, like “cheapest”, takes “the”.
- “The cheapest vegetables” is right.