Which of the following sentences use the articles correctly?
(A) Tigers usually hunt alone and mostly at night.
(B) Our school trip to the hills was called off due to a bad weather.
(C) Dadi reads the Ramayana every morning before her tea.
(D) Last winter, we went boating on Lake Pichola in Udaipur.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A), (C) and (D) only
(A) Tigers usually hunt alone and mostly at night. — Correct.
- A plural noun used in a general sense takes no article.
- Here “tigers” means all tigers, not some particular tigers.
(B) Our school trip to the hills was called off due to a bad weather. — Incorrect.
- “Weather” is a noun that cannot be counted, so it never takes “a”.
- Correct form: Our school trip to the hills was called off due to bad weather.
(C) Dadi reads the Ramayana every morning before her tea. — Correct.
- The name of a holy book takes “the” before it.
- “The Ramayana” is right.
(D) Last winter, we went boating on Lake Pichola in Udaipur. — Correct.
- The name of a lake that begins with the word “Lake” takes no article.
- “Lake Pichola” is right.