Fill in the blank with a suitable article from the options given:
“What __________ wonderful day!” said the tourist.

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The article ‘a’ is employed before words whose first letter may be a consonant. ‘An’ is employed when the word starts with a vowel. Vowels are a, e, i, o, u.
The given sentence is talking about a few single days. The word ‘wonderful’ starts with ‘w’ which may be a consonant. Therefore, the article to be used is ‘a’. Thus, the right option is B. The whole sentence is ‘“What a beautiful day!” said the tourist.’
Option A is wrong because ‘the’ is employed for correct nouns or once we want to specify something.
‘The girl’ means we are talking to a few particular girls. Similarly, ‘the apple’, ‘the man’, and ‘the dress’, means we are talking about a couple of particular apples, man, and dress respectively.
Option C is wrong because ‘wonderful’ doesn't start with a vowel. ‘An’ may be used before words like apple, egg, orange, ice cream, etc., that is, words that start with a vowel.
Option D is simply to confuse the scholars. it's not the proper answer.
Hence, option A is the correct answer.