Question

Read the following sentences. 

It was a cold morning and stars still glowed in the sky. An old man was walking along the road. 

The words in italics are articles. ‘A’ and ‘an’ are indefinite articles and ‘the’ is the definite article. ‘A’ is used before a singular countable noun. ‘An’ is used before a word that begins with a vowel.

• a boy	• an actor
• a mango	• an apple
• a university	• an hour

Use a, an or the in the blanks.

There was once ...... play which became very successful. ...... famous actor was acting in it. In ...... play his role was that of ...... aristocrat who had been imprisoned in ...... castle for twenty years. In ...... last act of ...... play someone would come on ...... stage with letter which he would hand over to ...... prisoner. Even though ...... aristocrat was not expected to read ...... letter at each performance, he always insisted that ...... letter be written out from beginning to end.

Answer 1

There was once a play which became very successful. A famous actor was acting in it. In the play his role was that of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in a castle for twenty years. In the last act of the play someone would come on the stage with a letter which he would hand over to the prisoner. Even though the aristocrat was not expected to read the letter at each performance, he always insisted that the letter be written out from beginning to end.