Fill in the blank with the appropriate article. There was scarcely ______ hope left after multiple failures.
no article
“Hope” here is used as an uncountable, abstract noun meaning the feeling of expectation in general. Abstract uncountable nouns used in a general sense do not take the indefinite article “a/an”.
No particular, already-identified hope is being referred to, so “the” is also not required. The sentence reads correctly as “There was scarcely hope left after multiple failures.” (the idea being that hardly any hope remained).
“an” is in any case impossible before “hope”, which begins with a consonant sound.
Hence, no article is needed in the blank.
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