Question

__ children are fond of stories. (Articles)

Answer 1

The children are fond of stories.  

Explanation:

• There are two articles in the English grammar that are "the and a/an".

• "the" is considered as a definite article and "a/an" is considered as an indefinite article.

• Articles are used to define the specificity of a noun.

• Article "the" is used to refer to the specific nouns. It can be used for singular as well as plural nouns.

• "a/an" article is used for the unspecific nouns. It is used for singular nouns.

Answer 2

Correct article:

The children are fond of stories.

Explanation:

• An article is always used with noun that is used to specify the definiteness of the noun.
• Articles are part of determiners. Articles include a, an and the.
• Articles specifies the common noun and it is also based on the vowels of a word.
• Article types are definite, indefinite, proper, partitive, negative and zero articles.