Paella is usually served with vegetables and meat or seafood.

[Anykin]

Could you help me please? What article is needed?

Paella is usually served with vegetables and meat or seafood.
It was _______ workers' meal, cooked over _____ open fire in _____ fields and eaten from the pan using wooden spoons.
Restaurants in Spain offer ______wide variety of paella dishes. ______traditional Paella Valenciana includes chicken, duck, rabbit and snails.
I suppose that they are: a, an, - (without), the, the

 

[teechar]

Hello and welcome to the forum.
You've got one wrong. Can you tell us why you would use "the" before "wide variety of paella dishes"?

 

[Anykin]

Hello and welcome to the forum.
You've got one wrong. Can you tell us why you would use "the" before "wide variety of paella dishes"?

Hello! Thanks a lot!
I suppose that it's a concrete variety. The variety of paella dishes (concretely). Am I wrong?
Actually, there are other answers in the keys
It says - the, an, the, a, a
But I can't understand why "the" before worker's meal and fields at all
And why is it "a" before "traditional Paella Valenciana"... Isn't it a concrete type of Paella?

 

[Piscean]

Also posted here: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/it-was-a-the-worker’s-meal.4060023/

 

[Tarheel]

@Anykin I don't know what you mean by "concretely" there.

Also, Teechar's question is only about one of them.

They are waiting for you to respond at WR. (There's an error in your post, but I don't remember what it is right now. (I can't reply to it until you respond to your thread.))

 

[kttlt]

It's "workers'", plural and therefore requires "the", right? The same probably goes for "fields". I am a bit (perhaps more than a bit) confused about the last one, couldn't it be either article depending on what you're trying to say - "the traditional" as in "the definitive way to make the Paella Valenciana" but also "a traditional" as in "the way it's usually/typically made"?

 

[Tarheel]

the workers' meal - a meal for the workers

 

[Rover_KE]

Also posted here.

@Anykin, please don't post the same question to multiple forums at the same time. I note you posted here first. You should have waited at least a day for people here to respond. If you then decided to post to another forum, you should include a link to this thread so that users there know you're asking in more than one place. It wastes the valuable time of members of both forums to find they're answering a question that has been answered somewhere else already.

(emsr2d2)

 

[teechar]

Note that "a wide variety" is the correct answer. Use "the" if "variety" has already been mentioned in the text (which it hasn't in the one above).