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Articles are ubiquitous; the is the most common word in English, accounting for 7% of all words.

The concept of definiteness is hard to grasp even for advanced learners who don’t have articles in their first language. A spectacular example of such confusion is the occasion with Ivana Trump. She explained, “Yes, you know the outcome — ‘The Donald’ just slipped off the tongue, and now it seems to be making its ways to the political history books.”

Take the challenge to find out if articles are easy for you!

HardA2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediateA2ArticleDeterminerQuantifierDeterminativeCountable and uncountable

Correct answers

Question 1

Select correct articles.
Eli likes to play _________________________ volleyball.

In the case of sports, these are not generally modified by articles.

Question 2

Select correct articles.
I'm learning to play _________________________ guitar at school.

The is used when referring to playing a musical instrument in general.

Question 3

Choose correct article.
Two _________________________ messages were sent yesterday.

No article is needed as quantifier two is a determiner and replaces article in this case.

Question 4

Select correct articles.
I was _________________________ most popular girl in the group.

There were other girls in the group, but only one of them was the most popular.

Question 5

Choose correct article for each gap.
_________________________ many _________________________ young persons are shy.

No article is needed as quantifier many is a determiner and replaces article in this case.

Question 6

Select correct articles.
Lee speaks _________________________ French.

No article is used with language names.

Question 7

Select correct articles.
_________________________ student does the tasks better than all _________________________ others.

We understand from context that there is a particular student and all the other students.

Question 8

Choose correct statements.

No article is used instead of indefinite article in such cases.

Question 9

Select correct articles.
_________________________ old decorated chest in _________________________ far part of _________________________ room was filled with _________________________ gold coins.

An old decorated chest in the far part of the room was filled with gold coins.

An is used because it follows from context that the chest was not mentioned before.

An old decorated chest in the far part of the room was filled with gold coins.

The is used to indicate that we are speaking about a specific part of the room - the one that is far.

An old decorated chest in the far part of the room was filled with gold coins.

The is used because the room in the example is already mentioned.

An old decorated chest in the far part of the room was filled with gold coins.

No article is used because the gold coins were not mentioned before and "coins" are plural.

Question 10

Select correct articles ignoring capitalization.
I ate _________________________ orange yesterday. _________________________ orange was very refreshing.

"An" is correct for the first sentence as the orange is not known yet. "The" is correct for the second sentence as the very same orange from the first sentence in meant.

Question 11

Choose correct article for each gap.
Many _________________________ game is lost before even a play is run.

An indefinite article is here used in conjunction with the quantifier many, thus joining a plural quantifier with a singular noun.

Question 12

Select correct articles.
I'm going to _________________________ university to meet Mary.

The is used as university here is a concrete place of meeting.

Question 13

Select correct articles.
Sam is going to _________________________ school.

Using no article indicates that school is understood as an institution here.

Question 14

There is a sentence in a book: "I found the keys on a table."

Article "the" implies that the keys were known.
Article "a" implies that the table had not been mentioned before.

Question 15

Select correct article.
She went to _________________________ bed.

No article is used in this regular phrase.

Question 16

Select correct article.
He hopes to buy _________________________ inexpensive car this weekend

Indefinite article is used as specific inexpensive car is not known. "An" is used instead of "a" because the next word starts with a vowel sound.

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