Choose the sentences in which the articles are used correctly:
(A) Ladakh lies in the far north of India.
(B) Papa bought a new furniture for the living room before Diwali.
(C) The British ruled India for nearly two hundred years.
(D) Whole village gathered near the temple to watch the Ram Lila.
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) Ladakh lies in the far north of India. — Correct.
- “The” comes before a direction used as the name of a part of a country.
- “The north of India” means the northern part of the country.
(B) Papa bought a new furniture for the living room before Diwali. — Incorrect.
- “Furniture” is a noun that cannot be counted, so it never takes “a” or “an”.
- The given sentence says “a new furniture”, so “a” must go.
- Correct form: Papa bought new furniture for the living room before Diwali.
(C) The British ruled India for nearly two hundred years. — Correct.
- “The” comes before a nationality word such as “British” when it means the whole people of that country.
- “The British” means the people of Britain.
(D) Whole village gathered near the temple to watch the Ram Lila. — Incorrect.
- “Whole” before a singular noun needs “the” before it, as in “the whole class”.
- The given sentence says “Whole village” with no article, which is wrong.
- Correct form: The whole village gathered near the temple to watch the Ram Lila.