Task | My friend was born in _ USA. |
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Answer | 3 |
a | a |
b | an |
c | the |
d | — |
comment | In the test sentence ‘My friend was born in _ USA.’ we are given the gap before the name of the country – ‘USA’. We do not normally use the definite article with names: America, Austria, Barbados, Italy,France, Russia, Spain, etc. But we do use ‘the’ with countries that include the words ‘republic’, ‘kingdom’,or ‘states’ in their names: He is visiting the United Kingdom of Great Britain.; Connor is from the Republic of Ireland.; The Russian Federation is the largest country in the world by land area. So, we should use ‘the’ if the country’s name includes a common noun.The name of the country that is given in the test sentence (United States of America) includes the common noun ‘states’, therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 3 (the). |
topic | articles |
level | 1 |
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