Discussion
We had __________ late lunch today.
Answer: A
The answer is a: We had a late lunch today.
Names of meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) normally take no article: we had lunch at one. But when an adjective describes the meal, it becomes one particular kind of meal and takes the indefinite article: a late lunch, a heavy breakfast, a good dinner.
'An' is used only before a vowel sound, and 'late' begins with a consonant sound. 'The' would point to a lunch already known to the listener, which the sentence does not. Leaving out the article is the rule only when the meal has no adjective.
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