Article Questions for All Competitive Exams

Here, the sentence talks about ‘USA’ as specific place. Since we are referring to specific things, we need to use the definite article ‘the’.

Use ‘an’ before words such as “hour” which sound like they start with a vowel even if the first letter is a consonant. Also use ‘an’ before letters and numbers which sound like they begin with a vowel, such as “F” or “8”.

Here, a specific pencil that was lent is being talked about. ‘The’ article will be used.

Low season is an uncountable thing as low season or high season does not specify anything. It cannot be measured. So we don’t require any article here. Therefore, ‘no article’ comes before ‘low season’.
Most is used to indicate a superlative form of word and it also does not specify anything remaining an uncountable word. So we don’t require any articles here also. Therefore ‘no article’ comes before ‘most’.
The word ‘hotels’ is used to refer to a particular place. So we’ll use an article before ‘hotels’. Here ‘hotels’ are referred specifically and thus we use a definite article which is ‘the’. Therefore, ‘the’ comes before ‘hotels’.

An indefinite article is used when we are talking generally about something whereas a definite article is used when we are talking about something specific. The indefinite articles are ‘a’ and ‘an’. ‘An’ is used before a word starting with a vowel or vowel sound. A is used before a word starting with a consonant or consonant sound. A definite article is an article that tells the uniqueness of something. ‘The’ is the only definite article. Both the blanks shall take ‘the’ as the sentence talks about a particular time period (last fifty years, previous two hundred years).

Here, definite article ‘the’ will be used because the speaker gave specific ‘money’ that was found.

Here, the noun after the blank is common noun. Hence, indefinite article will be followed. ‘An’ is used because the word ‘honest’ sounds ‘onest’.

‘A’ should be used before words that are general and also has consonant sounds at the beginning and ‘An’ before words with vowel sounds at the beginning. The word ‘University’ has consonant sound ‘yoo’. Hence, ‘A’ is used.