Question

(a) Insert suitable articles :

(i) Raina travelled in .......... second-class

carriage, with ............ the few Americans.

(ii) .......... clouds over ......... sky are lovely today.

(iii) .......... book on the shelf is ......... interesting

one about .......... Gandhian Philosophy.​

Answer 1

Answer:

All the answers are given in the explanation below.

Explanation:

In the question, we have been provided with a few sentences that have blanks in between them and we have to fill in the blanks with suitable articles. Articles include "a", "an", and "the".

i) Raina travelled in a second-class carriage, with a  few Americans.

ii) The clouds over the sky are lovely today.

iii) The book on the shelf is an interesting one about the Gandhian Philosophy.​

Answer 2

Articles are one among the Determiners which describe the prominence of a noun, if it is a known or a common noun.

Explanation:

• Articles convey the familiarity/ specificity of a noun in a sentence.
• The role a noun has is conveyed through the articles used in the sentence. As to if the noun is a prominent and a specific noun or a profoundly found noun.
• Indefinite articles, A and An are used to indicate commonly present nouns.
• Definite article, The is used to indicate prominent nouns.

1. Raina travelled in a second-class carriage, with a few Americans.
2. The clouds over the sky are lovely today.
3. The book on the shelf is an interesting one about the Gandhian Philosophy.​