Which of the following sentences use the articles correctly?
(A) A Mr Mehta rang up this morning and asked for your father.
(B) The closer we got to the stadium, louder the noise became.
(C) Grandma always says that kindness costs nothing.
(D) Seema has booked a one-way ticket to Chennai.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A), (C) and (D) only
(A) A Mr Mehta rang up this morning and asked for your father. — Correct.
- “A” before a person’s name means a certain person the speaker does not know.
- The caller said he was Mr Mehta, but the speaker does not know who he is.
(B) The closer we got to the stadium, louder the noise became. — Incorrect.
- In a “the ... the” sentence with two comparing words (closer, louder), both parts need “the”.
- Here “louder” has no “the” before it.
- Correct form: The closer we got to the stadium, the louder the noise became.
(C) Grandma always says that kindness costs nothing. — Correct.
- No article is used before a quality like kindness when it is meant in general.
- Grandma is speaking of kindness in general, not of one kind act.
(D) Seema has booked a one-way ticket to Chennai. — Correct.
- “A” goes before a consonant sound, even when the letter is a vowel.
- “One-way” begins with the letter o, but its first sound is “w”.