"a fruit. a vegetable. a drink" . Change the 'a' to 'the' without using replace function. And use split function

Question

s= '''a fruit. a vegetable. a drink'''
for a in s.split('a'):
print(a,end=' ')

I am stuck here. Don't know how to proceed further

Answer 1

print("the ".join("a fruit. a vegetable. a drink".split("a ")))

Answer 2

Where's your attempt buddy?