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The man who is now Municipal Commissioner worked as ________________.

  1. the security guard at a university
  2. a security guard at the university
  3. a security guard at university
  4. the security guard at the university
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University considered as an organization that’s why article the used before university.
And Post of security is a general post, so article a has been used for security guard.

So, option (B) is true.

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I think the answer should be A. It is not mentioned which university the author is talking about.As the university in question is not referenced beforehand, the definite article "THE" cannot be used before "university". But "the" can be used before security guard,because we know that he was "the" security guard at some given university. Though ANSWER B sounds correct, I think the more appropriate answer is A. And there is no logical explanation as to why A should be wrong either .
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This might be the better explanation

In the see that there is no particular information about the security guard post, so a security guard.

But since the man is Municipal Commissioner, we are certain that in which university he was working, so we know the particular university ---> so the university.

source:http://gateforum.org/224/the-man-who-is-now-municipal-commissioner-worked-as

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