what is an article? an article is an adjective
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- What is an article?
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- An article is an adjective.
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- English has two articles:
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- The is used to refer to specific or particular nouns.
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- A/an is used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns.
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- We call the definite article. the = definite article
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- We call a/an indefinite article. a/an = indefinite article
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- The first time you speak of something use "a or an",
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- I live in a house.
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- The next time you repeat that object use "the".
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- The house is quite old and has four bedrooms.
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- I ate in a Chinese restaurant.
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- The restaurant was very good.
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- Compare a and the in these examples A man and a woman were sitting opposite me. The man was American but I think the woman was British. When we were on holiday,we stayed at a hotel.Sometimes we had our dinner at the hotel and we sometimes went to a restaurant.
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- This morning I bought a newspaper and ___ magazine. ___ newspaper is in my bag but I dont know where I put ___ magazine.
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- This morning I bought a newspaper and a magazine. __ newspaper is in my bag but I dont know where I put __ magazine.
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- This morning I bought a newspaper and a magazine. The newspaper is in my bag but I dont know where I put ___ magazine.
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- This morning I bought a newspaper and a magazine. The newspaper is in my bag but I dont know where I put the magazine.
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- This morning I bought a newspaper and ___ magazine. ___ newspaper is in my bag but I dont know where I put ___ magazine. I saw ___ accident this morning. ___ car crashed into ___ tree. ___ driver of ___ car wasnt hurt but ___ car was badly damaged. My friends live in ___ old house in ___ small village.There is ___ beautiful garden behind ___ house.I would like to have ___ garden like that.
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- This morning I bought a newspaper and a magazine. The newspaper is in my bag but I dont know where I put the magazine. I saw an accident this morning. A car crashed into a tree.The driver of the car wasnt hurt but the car was badly damaged. My friends live in an old house in a small village.There is a beautiful garden behind the house.I would like to have a garden like that.
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- a/an is used before a singular noun which is uncountable. I need a visaThey live in a flat. He bought an ice-cream.
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- A is used before a word beginning with a consonant or a vowel with a consonat sound; a mana hata univercitya eoropean a one-way street An is used before words beginning with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u) or words beginning with a mute h: an applean islandan uncle an eggan onion
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- A/an is not used.It is omitted: Before plural nouns An eggeggs Before uncountable nouns Before names of meals,except when these are preceded by an adjective. We have breakfast at eight. We had a good breakfast. The article is also used when it is a special meal given to celibrate something or in someones honour; I was invited to dinner. I was invited to a dinner given to welcome the new ambassador.
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- THE
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- We use the when it is clear which thing or person we mean.
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- We use the when it is clear in the situation which thing or person we mean.For example,in a room we talk about the light/the floor/the ceiling/the door/the carpet etc. Can you turn off the light,please?(the light in this room) I took a taxi to the station.(the station in that town)
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- WE SAY the sunthe moonthe world the sky the seathe country the policethe armythe piano the guitarthe radio in the morningin the afternoon in the evening
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- WE DO NOT USE THE WITH: television breakfastlunchdinner
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- NAMES WITH AND WITHOUT THE We do not use the with names of people.In the same way we do not normally use the with names of places.For example: Continents:Africa Countries:England Regions:Central Europe Islands:Corsica,Sicily,Cyprus Mountains:Everest,Etna,Klimanjaro
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- But we use the in names with Republic,Kingdom,states etc. the United States of America (the USA) the United Kingdom the Dominican Republic We visited Canada and the United States
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- PLURAL NAMES We use the + plural names of countries/islands/mountains: the Netherlandsthe Canary Islands the Philippines
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- SEAS,RIVERS ETC. We use the +names of oceans/seas/rivers/canals: the Atlantic Oceanthe Mediterranean Sea the River Nilethe Suez Canal the Black Seathe Amazon
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