Today's homework

HOMEWORK FOR TODAY: ARTICLE or NO ARTICLE? For each of the following sentences, fill in the blank with either 'a', 'an', 'the', or 'no article'. 1. _The_ Chinese is a difficult language to learn. 2. _A_ general's army attacked the city at night. 3. I like to play _”no article”__ basketball. 4. My parents gave me _a_ basketball for my birthday. 5. She is _the_ prettiest girl in the school. 6. I have _a_ idea! Let's go bowling. 7. I have borrowed _the_ money from her before. 8. My first apartment was on _a_ Orange Street. 9. _A_ dress she is wearing is blue. 10. He is _a_ real gentleman Today's homework is not easy to fill in the blank. If my answer is wrong, could you please explain why it is wrong to me? Thanks a lot

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1. _The_ Chinese is a difficult language to learn.
>> No article

>>NOTE: There are several instances where we do not use the article \'THE\':

  1. Non-count nouns (rice, music, height, weight)

  2. Holidays (the Chuseok, the Christmas)

  3. Names (David, [이름]), specific places (countries, mountains, lakes), LANGUAGES (Chinese, Korean/ Hangul, Filipino)

*also remember that some places have the before it like THE Philippines, THE Americas, THE United States, THE Czech Republic

2. _A_ general\'s army attacked the city at night.
 >> The

>> The sentence is only referring to one army and not one of many. The general only has one army so we use the definite article \'THE\'

3. I like to play _”no article”__ basketball.
>> CORRECT!
4. My parents gave me _a_ basketball for my birthday.
>> CORRECT!
5. She is _the_ prettiest girl in the school.
>> CORRECT!
6. I have _a_ idea! Let\'s go bowling.
>> An

>> NOTE: Always remember that the \'A\' article is only followed by a word that begins with a consonant and \'AN\' is always succeeded by a word that begins with a vowel. (examples: An apple, An orange, An idea, A toy, A person, A table)
7. I have borrowed _the_ money from her before.
>> No article

>> Money is a non-count noun, therefore, it doesn\'t need an article.
8. My first apartment was on _a_ Orange Street.
>> No article

>> Orange Street is a specific place. Places with names or specific places do not need articles before them.
9. _A_ dress she is wearing is blue.
>> The

>> A person can only wear one dress at a time. We cannot say you are wearing two dresses. THE DRESS= one dress while A DRESS= one dress among many dresses.
10. He is _a_ real gentleman

>> CORRECT!
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Today\'s homework is not easy to fill in the blank.

>> CORRECT!

>> It is not easy to fill in the blanks for this homework.

>> Today\'s homework is not easy.

>>This fill in the blanks homework is not easy.

>> Today\'s homework is difficult.
If my answer is wrong, could you please explain why it is wrong to me?
>> If my answers are wrong, could you please explain why?^^
Thanks a lot

>> CORRECT!^^

>> Thanks a lot! [punctuation mark]^^