English Articles-01-Basics

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English Language Learning Series

The BASICS

Where do they come?

before “nouns”..

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Singular, Countable nouns

Where & how are they used? Articles

Indefinite

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the Definite

‘general’

‘specific’

before

before

Singular / Plural Countable / Uncountable

nouns

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• A book • An engineer

Articles

Indefinite

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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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What about these?

house

horse

hour

honest man

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What about these?

university

union

umbrella

European

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What about these?

house

honest man

ear

year

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What about these?

one-rupee note

one-eyed man

useful article

yellow building

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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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BUT

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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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