Question

Have you seen _ Tom today? a the Usually we use the zero article (no article) before the name of an individual person: Claude Monet is my favourite painter. But be attentive, we should use ‘the’ when there are two people with the same name to specify which one we mean: That’s not the Stephano Periccelli who I worked with in New York.In the test sentence ‘Have you seen _ Tom today?’ we are given the name of a particular person –Tom. And we don’t distinguish him from someone else who has the same name. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 4 (-). 1

Accepted Answer

4 an — articles

Task	Have you seen _ Tom today?
Answer	4
a	a
b	an
c	the
d	—
comment	Usually we use the zero article (no article) before the name of an individual person: Claude Monet is my favourite painter. But be attentive, we should use ‘the’ when there are two people with the same name to specify which one we mean: That’s not the Stephano Periccelli who I worked with in New York.In the test sentence ‘Have you seen _ Tom today?’ we are given the name of a particular person –Tom. And we don’t distinguish him from someone else who has the same name. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 4 (-).
topic	articles
level	1

Tom Today Article Individual Person Claude Monet Favourite