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Choose the correct pair of articles to fill in the blanks. If no article is required, choose “No article”.

The thief was sent to __________ prison for stealing __________ expensive car.

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The correct answer is

No article / an

Nouns such as prison, school, church and hospital take no article when we speak of the purpose the place is used for. A thief is sent to prison to serve a sentence, so the first blank needs no article.

The second blank comes before the singular countable noun phrase “expensive car”, which is mentioned for the first time and is not a particular, already known car, so an indefinite article is needed.

The word “expensive” begins with a vowel sound, so the indefinite article “an” is used instead of “a”. The complete sentence reads: The thief was sent to prison for stealing an expensive car.

Hence, No article / an.

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