Question

Choose the grammatically correct option from the following.

• A. I live in a house in a street in the countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and the house is old - more than 100 years old!
• B. I live in the house in the street countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and the house is old - more than 100 years old!
• C. I live in a house in the street in the countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and the house is old - more than 100 years old!
• D. I live in a house in a street in the countryside. The street is called “Bear Street” and a house is old - more than 100 years old!

Hint:

Use “a” only on first mention of the house/street; every later mention needs “the”.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Understanding the Concept.
When a house and a street are mentioned for the first time, they should use the indefinite article “a”, since the listener does not yet know which specific house or street is meant. Once mentioned, later references to the same house or street use “the”.

Step 2: Check option A.
“In a house in a street” correctly introduces both for the first time with “a”, and later, “the street” and “the house” correctly refer back to the same ones already introduced. This is grammatically correct throughout.

Step 3: Check option B.
“In the house in the street countryside” wrongly uses “the” on first mention (before either has been introduced) and garbles “street countryside” without a needed “in the”, so option B is wrong.

Step 4: Check option C.
“In a house in the street” wrongly uses “the” for the street on its first mention, so option C is wrong.

Step 5: Check option D.
The second sentence wrongly says “a house is old”, using “a” for a house already introduced and specifically referred to, when it should be “the house”, so option D is wrong.

Step 6: Final Answer.
Option A is grammatically correct throughout.