Choose the correct articles to fill in the blanks. If no article is required, choose “No article”. ____________ dogs make great pets, but ____________ dogs next door bark all night.
No article / the
A plural countable noun used in a general sense, referring to a whole class, takes no article. When the noun is made specific by a phrase that identifies exactly which ones are meant, it takes the definite article the.
In the first blank, dogs means dogs in general, so no article is used: Dogs make great pets. In the second blank, the phrase next door identifies particular dogs known to the speaker, so the is needed: the dogs next door bark all night.
A cannot be used before the plural noun dogs, which rules out the pairs beginning with A. The before the first dogs would wrongly point to specific dogs, and leaving the second blank empty would fail to mark the specific dogs next door.
No article / the option is correct.
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