Discussion
Supply the correct article in the following sentence :
________ pen is mightier than the sword.
Answer: A
The correct article is The: The pen is mightier than the sword.
Here pen does not mean one particular pen but the whole class of things it stands for, writing and ideas, contrasted with the sword, force. A singular noun used to represent its whole class takes the definite article the, as in the horse is a noble animal. The proverb is from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's play Richelieu (1839).
A would mean any single pen, an is used only before a vowel sound, and leaving out the article is ungrammatical with a singular countable noun.
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