Which of the following sentences use the articles correctly?
(A) Every winter, tourists ride camels across the Thar Desert near Jaisalmer.
(B) Kunal bought an used cycle from his neighbour for two thousand rupees.
(C) The Joshis have moved into a flat near the metro station.
(D) The patience is needed when you teach small children to write.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (C) only
(A) Every winter, tourists ride camels across the Thar Desert near Jaisalmer. — Correct.
- The name of a desert takes “the” before it.
- “The Thar Desert” is right.
(B) Kunal bought an used cycle from his neighbour for two thousand rupees. — Incorrect.
- “A” or “an” depends on the first sound of the next word, here the describing word “used”.
- “Used” begins with the sound “yoo”, which is a consonant sound, so it takes “a”.
- Correct form: Kunal bought a used cycle from his neighbour for two thousand rupees.
(C) The Joshis have moved into a flat near the metro station. — Correct.
- “The” + a surname in the plural means the whole family.
- “The Joshis” means the Joshi family.
(D) The patience is needed when you teach small children to write. — Incorrect.
- A word for a quality, used in a general sense, takes no article.
- Here “patience” means patience in general, not one particular patience.
- Correct form: Patience is needed when you teach small children to write.