Fill in the blanks with the correct pair of articles:
The trust runs a night shelter for ______ homeless about half ______ kilometre from the railway station.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → the ... a
“The” + describing word for a group of people, “a” after “half”:
First blank: “Homeless” is a describing word, and no noun comes after it here. With “the” before it, it means all people of that kind. “The homeless” means people who have no home.
Second blank: In “half a ...”, the article “a” comes after “half” and before a singular noun that can be counted, such as “kilometre”.
Complete sentence: The trust runs a night shelter for the homeless about half a kilometre from the railway station.