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Question 1:
I bought some cheese, ten apples and _ bottle of wine
A. a
Feedback A/an and the are articles. They are a type of determiner and they go before a noun.The indefinite article ‘a/an’ before a noun shows that what is referred to is not already known to the speaker, listener, writer and/or reader, we refer to something for the first time: ‘Would you like a drink?’, we also use it to show the person or thing is one of a group: ‘Let’s buy a red dress.’. We use ‘a’ when the next word starts with a consonant (a boy, a dog), or before words starting in u and eu when they sound like you (a university, a unit, a European style, a euro). We use ‘an’ when the next word starts with a vowel (a, e, i, o,u) or with a mute h (an actor, an invitation, an eagle, an old school,an umbrella, an hour). We do not use an indefinite article with plural nouns (bears) and uncountable nouns (advice): I saw some bears in the Zoo.;She gave me good advice.The definite article ‘the’ before a noun shows that what is referred to is already known to the speaker,listener, writer and/or reader, refer to something which has already been mentioned: We went to the restaurant yesterday.; The sun rose at 5.34 in the morning.; I’ve read a book on the life of Angelina Jolie.In the test sentence ‘I bought some cheese, ten apples and _ bottle of wine.’ We should choose the article that stands before the countable noun ‘bottle’ (thus, we do not need ANSWER 4 ‘-’) that starts with the consonant ‘b’ (and it is not ANSWER 2 ‘an’). We also understand that the speaker mentions this bottle of wine for the first time, thus, we are to choose ANSWER 1 ‘a’.
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