Life is beautiful. insert article
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Answer:
Life is beautiful, but not always. It has lots of problems you have to face everyday. Don't worry though! All these problems make you strong, it gives you courage to stand alone in future. Life is full of moments of joy, pleasure, success and comfort punctuated by misery, defeat, failures and problems. There is no human being on Earth, strong, powerful, wise or rich, who has not experienced, struggle, suffering or failure. You have to work hard to reach to the highest position. Life is full of paths, you just have to choose the right one. Life is interesting and amazing like the stars up in the skies.
Answer:
The articles 'a, an, the' are placed before nouns, to modify or describe them.
'A' and 'an' are indefinite nouns: they refer to those nouns that are non-specific, their identity is not made known. For e.g. 'a man', 'a duck in the pond', etc.
'The' is a definite article and refers to a specific noun, whose identity is made known. e.g. 'The woman in that shop', 'the fruit from this tree', etc.
In the given sentence, the noun 'country' is a specific noun, hence 'the' will be used.
So, options A 'a; a' and D 'the; a' can be eliminated.
Option B: 'The' is used for 'country'. But, it is not used for 'village.
A country has many villages. It is not mentioned which village 'Tim' lives in. So, 'the' cannot be used for 'small village'. Hence B is incorrect.
Option C: Since the noun 'village' is non-specific, 'a' is suitable. The use of 'the' for the noun 'country' has already been explained.
Hence, option C is correct.
Explanation:
Typically, when we say something is beautiful, we would not use a definite article if we are talking about an abstract noun:
Patience is beautiful.
Courage is beautiful.
Compassion is beautiful.
Life is beautiful.
Adding a definite article to any of those sentences would sound "off".
However, if we somehow qualify the noun, we can use the definite article:
The patience of a schoolteacher is beautiful.
The courage of the knight is beautiful.
The compassion he showed was beautiful.
The life of a queen is beautiful.
I think we prefer to say things like, "It's not idiomatic" instead of, "It's a mistake" because we can often imagine a context where a sentence might work just fine, despite the fact that it sounds so unusual as a standalone sentence. For example, if we were to write something like this:
Thoreau learned and taught that a deep reverence for nature could lead to a more fulfilling life. The way is simple. The life is beautiful. And sometimes the only things holding us back are our own fears and insecurities.
then the sentence sounds just fine. We are talking about a particular life (we might even say a particular way of life), not life in general, so the definite article actually helps get our meaning across.