Question

1. And the first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service. (here article THE is used to denote____ 1. the ordinal number used as an adjective 2. the special number used as adverb 3. the cardinal number used as Adjective 4. the unique number used as verb​

Answer 1

Option 1. the ordinal number used as an adjective. -This is the answer.

Explanation:

• Articles are of three kinds -'a', 'an' and 'the'. We must find out the reason why 'the' is used here.
• Ordinal number refers to the numeral adjective that represents the order of something.
• There can be only one 'first' item/ 'second' item.
• So it is definitely just one. Therefore the definite article 'the' is used to represent the ordinal number.
• Articles 'a' and 'an' are indefinite articles, whereas, article 'the' is definite article.