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Saturday, May 12, 2018

12:04 PM

What are the types of articles in English?





There are two types of articles:


·         The Definite Article (the)



·         The Indefinite Article (a and an).


The articles are classified as adjectives.

The is called the definite article because it is used to indicate something specific.

A and An are called the indefinite articles because they are used to indicate something unspecific.


Examples of the Definite and Indefinite Articles



Here are some examples of the articles in use:


·         I fell over the chair again.


(The chair is specific. It is known to the audience.)


·         Can you pass me a chair?


(This means an unspecific chair, i.e., any chair.)


·         I loved the apple pie after the meal.


(In this example, the audience knows which apple pie is being praised, e.g., the one at last night's dinner.)


·         I love an apple pie after dinner.


(The audience understands that the speaker likes to eat an apple pie after dinner (any apple pie will do).) 


·         I'm not a troublemaker. I'm the troublemaker!




(This means "I'm not any old troublemaker. I'm the one you all know about.")



























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What Is the Definite Article? 




What are the types of articles in English?






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11:56 AM

What Is the Definite Article? (with Examples)





The definite article is the word the. It is used before a noun to specify it as something previously considered.


There are two types of articles:


·         The Definite Article (the)


·         The Indefinite Article (a and an).


The articles are classified as adjectives.

The is known as the definite article because it indicates something specific.

In contrast to the definite article is the indefinite article (a or an), which indicates something unspecific. Of interest, the is the most commonly used word in English.


Examples of the Definite Article



Here are some sentences which compare the use of definite and indefinite articles:


·         Can we go to the park?


(The park is specific. It is known to the speaker and the listener.)


·         Can we go to a park?


(The park is unspecific. The speaker doesn't care which one.)


·         I have found a solution to the problem.


(The solution is not yet known by the listener. The problem is known to the speaker and the listener.)


·         I have found a solution to a problem.




(This would attract a response like Good for you. What problem? The speaker's use of a tells us that the problem is not known to the listener.)






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What is an article?






What Is the Indefinite Article?




What Is the Definite Article? 



What are the types of articles in English?



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11:49 AM

What Is the Indefinite Article?







What Is the Indefinite Article? (with Examples)





The indefinite article is the word a (or an when it helps pronunciation). It is used before a noun to describe it as something non-specific.

There are two types of articles:


·         The Definite Article (the)


·         The Indefinite Article (a and an).


Articles are adjectives.

A (or an) is known as the indefinite article because it indicates something non-specific.

In contrast to the indefinite article is the definite article (the), which sits before a noun to specify it as something previously considered (i.e., something specific).


Examples of the Indefinite Article



These sentences compare the use of indefinite and definite articles:


·         Pass me a hammer.


(The hammer is non-specific; i.e., any hammer will do.)


·         Pass me the hammer.


(The hammer is specific. It's the hammer known to the speaker and the listener; e.g., the one they've just been using.)


·         I need a chair.


(any chair)


·         I need the chair.




(a specific chair)




Related Page:






What is an article?



What Is the Indefinite Article?


What Is the Definite Article? 


What are the types of articles in English?





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11:46 AM

What is an article? (with example)



The words a or an and the are called articles. Articles come before nouns.


There are two articles – a/an and the






Basically, articles are either definite or indefinite. They combine to a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.


·         The definite article is the.



·         The indefinite article is a / an.


The indefinite article a or an:


The article a / an is used when we don't specify the things or people we are talking about:


·         I met a friend.


·         I work in a factory in New York.


·         I borrowed a pencil from a passenger sitting next to me.


The indefinite article a is used before a consonant sound:


·         a dog.


·         a pilot


·         a teacher.


·         a university


NOTE: 
Although 'university' starts with the vowel 'u', it is not pronounced as such. It is pronounced as a consonant sound /ju:.niv3:.si.ti/


The indefinite article an is used before a vowel sound:


·         an engineer.


·         an elephant.


·         an athlete


The definite article the:


It's used when the speaker talks about a specific object that both the person speaking and the listener know.


·         The car over there is fast.


·         The president of the United States is giving a speech tonight.


When we speak of something or someone for the first time we use a or an, the next time we repeat that object we use the definite article the.


·         I live in a house. The house is quite old and has four bedrooms.


·         I ate in a Chinese restaurant. The restaurant was very good.


No article:


1. Do not use an article with countries, states, counties or provinces, lakes and mountains except when the country is a collection of states such as "The United States".


·         He lives in Washington near Mount Rainier.


·         They live in Northern British Columbia.


·         They climbed Mount Everest.


2. we do not normally use an article with plurals and uncountable nouns to talk about things in general.:


·         He writes books.


·         She likes sweets.


·         Do you like jazz music?


·         She ate bread with butter in the morning.


Countable and uncountable nouns


Using English articles with countable and uncountable nouns may be confusing.


The can be used with uncountable nouns, or the article can be dropped entirely as mentioned above.


1.      "The two countries reached the peace after a long disastrous war" (some specific peace treaty) or "The two countries reached peace after a long disastrous war" (any peace).


2.      "He drank the water" (some specific water- for example, the water his wife brought him from the kitchen) or "He drank water." (any water)


It is unusual to use a/an for uncountable nouns. You can't say "I'd like a milk"


a/an can be used only with countable nouns.


1.      I'd like a piece of cake.


2.      I lent him a book.


3.      I drank a cup of tea.




Related Page:






What is an article?



What Is the Indefinite Article?


What Is the Definite Article? 


What are the types of articles in English?



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Saturday, October 25, 2014

10:21 PM

What are the types of Articles? What Are Articles?

What is the types of Articles?What Are Articles? (with Examples)


There are two types of articles:

·         The Definite Article (the)
·         The Indefinite Article (a and an).
The articles are classified as adjectives.

The is called the definite article because it is used to indicate something specific.

A and An are called the indefinite articles because they are used to indicate something unspecific.

Examples of the Definite and Indefinite Articles

Here are some examples of the articles in use:


·         I fell over the chair again.
(The chair is specific. It is known to the audience.)
·         Can you pass me a chair?
(This means an unspecific chair, i.e., any chair.)
·         I loved the apple pie after the meal.
(In this example, the audience knows which apple pie is being praised, e.g., the one at last night's dinner.)
·         I love an apple pie after dinner.
(The audience understands that the speaker likes to eat an apple pie after dinner (any apple pie will do).) 
·         I'm not a troublemaker. I'm the troublemaker!

(This means "I'm not any old troublemaker. I'm the one you all know about.")


What are the types of Articles?
What is an article? (With example)
What Is the Definite Article?

What Is the Indefinite Article?
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