Choose the sentences in which the articles are used correctly:
(A) Meera plays the harmonium every evening after school.
(B) We took a overnight bus from Pune to Goa.
(C) Ravi’s family spent a week in the Andaman Islands last winter.
(D) Arjun’s father always goes to the bed at ten o’clock.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) and (C) only
(A) Meera plays the harmonium every evening after school. — Correct.
- “The” comes before a musical instrument after the verb “play”.
- Meera plays the harmonium, so “the” is right.
(B) We took a overnight bus from Pune to Goa. — Incorrect.
- “A” or “an” depends on the first sound of the word just after it.
- Here that word is “overnight”, and it begins with a vowel sound.
- Correct form: We took an overnight bus from Pune to Goa.
(C) Ravi’s family spent a week in the Andaman Islands last winter. — Correct.
- “The” comes before the name of a group of islands.
- “The Andaman Islands” is the name of such a group.
(D) Arjun’s father always goes to the bed at ten o’clock. — Incorrect.
- “Go to bed” means go to sleep. In this phrase “bed” takes no article.
- Correct form: Arjun’s father always goes to bed at ten o’clock.