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Question 1:
Vicky told us _ interesting story A. a
B. the
C. an
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.We use the definite article ‘the’ before a noun to refer to something which has already been mentioned, to show that what is referred to is already known to the speaker, listener, writer and/or reader: 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 ‘Vicky told us _ interesting story.’ we should choose the article that stands before the countable noun ‘story’ (thus, we do not need ANSWER 4 ‘-’) before which the adjective ‘interesting’ is used that starts with the vowel ‘i’ (thus, it is not ANSWER 1 ‘a’). We also understand that the speaker mentions this bottle of wine for the first time, thus, we are to choose ANSWER 3 ‘an’.
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