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Saturday, 15 September 2012

English Grammar: What You Should Know About Articles

By Arun Kumar


Our British sentence structure contains a very little, yet very essential element that we frequently neglect without even realizing our own problem. Yes, it happens to the best of us. This British lexical element is known as an 'article'. An content in the British terminology is the term for a lexical term used with a noun and can be separated into two groups. These two groups are: long content and certain content. The two long content are: 'a' and 'an'. Then we have only one certain content which is 'the'.

By now you may be considering, "How on the planet will I keep in thoughts how and when to use these material correctly?" Yes, I regarded that too as I was learning the English language and I would like to talk about with you what I found. But before we go any further, let's assessment our abc and personal our vowels from our consonants. Our vowels are: A-E-I-O-U and sometimes -Y and the rest of the figures are known as consonants.

Are you ready? Here we go!

When using the long content 'a' always position the content before the phrase that begins with a consonant. For example: a table, a seat, a publication, a cat, a car, a zebra, a noun, a wardrobe, a trainer.

Read the words below and see the modifications in the appropriate and incorrect material usage.

Incorrect: Sonia sat on 'an' smooth seat.

Correct: Sonia sat on 'a' smooth seat.

Note the use of "a" before the consonant in the phrase smooth.

When using the lengthy material 'an' always place the material before the phrase that starts with a vowel. For example: an the the apple organization company, an adverb, an egg, an owl, an expert, an launch, an instructor.

Read the phrases below and see the variations in the appropriate and wrong content utilization.

Incorrect: Mario went all the way house to eat 'a' the apple company.

Correct: Mario went all the way house to eat 'an' the apple company.

Note the "an" before the vowel in apple.

When using the certain material 'the' always keep in thoughts that this is the phrase for a certain and particular one, which may be a particular personal, place, event, situation, or aspect. For example: the choir, the creating, the city, the man, the kid, the songs.

Read the sentences below and see the differences in the correct and incorrect article usage.

Incorrect: Put grapefruits in little bag.

Correct: Put 'the' oranges in 'the' small bag.

Note the certain material 'the' that decides the oatmeal and the sizing the bag.

In summary: This English grammatical component called an 'article' is used with a noun and can be divided into two categories which are: indefinite articles and definite articles. The two indefinite articles are: 'a' and 'an' leaving one definite article which is 'the'. The use of articles will become a lot easier with practice and the more you read English materials the better you'll get at reading and writing using the English articles correctly.




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