Question

Fill in the blank with suitable determiners:
(a) She did not send me...............reply.
(b) .................umbrella is a useful thing.​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) She did not send me the reply.

b) An umbrella is a useful thing

Answer 2

(a) She did not send me a  reply.

(b) An umbrella is a useful thing.

Explanation:

​(a) In this sentence, we are not particularly talking about a specific reply, so 'the' is not required.

(b) We use 'an' here to tell about one umbrella. 'An' is used with vowels a,e, i,o,u.

Hence, (a) She did not send me a  reply.

            (b) An umbrella is a useful thing.

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