2015 · Q59
He does not know what the university is.
EnglishSentence Improvement
- Aan
- Ba
- Cone
- DNo Improvement
Explanation
The sentence makes no reference to any particular university, so the definite article 'the' is wrong. The indefinite article is required, and since 'university' begins with a consonant sound — the 'yoo' sound, /j/ — the article must be 'a', not 'an'. 'An' is used only before vowel sounds. Hence 'the university' must become 'a university', option (B).