English Articles-01-Basics
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Singular, Countable nouns
Where & how are they used? Articles
Indefinite
a
an
the Definite
‘general’
‘specific’
before
before
Singular / Plural Countable / Uncountable
nouns
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• A book • An engineer
Articles
Indefinite
a
an
the Definite
‘general’
‘specific’
• The book • The doctor
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The Sound..
What determines it?
Vowel Consonant
actor elephant
island orange
umbrella
boy school forest
hospital university
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• Before a particular person or thing • One already referred to
• ______ book you want is available.
• Let us go to ________ theatre.
• He shouted at her and ______ girl cried.
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• Before most Proper Nouns..
• Names of People..
• Names of Continents, Countries, Cities..
• Names of individual mountains, hills..
• Individual islands, lakes..
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• Before some proper names of places
• Oceans & seas the Bay of Bengal
• Rivers the Ganges, the river Krishna
• Canals the Buckingham canal
• Deserts the Sahara, the Thar
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• Before some proper names of places
• Groups of Islands the West Indies
• Mountain Ranges the Himalayas
• A few countries the Indian Republic the United Kingdom the Netherlands the US
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If you know one language, learning another is
EASY…
A Foreign Language
can be best learnt
by
REPETITION Sreeram’s