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7 7 Articles: A, An, The
Warm-up
Fill in the blanks with a, an, or the.
1. My mother is _______________ English teacher.
2. John wants _______________ new pencil.
3. This is _______________ book on English grammar.
4. My elder brother is _______________ university student.
5. We visited _______________ India Gate last Friday.
A, an and the are called articles. We use a or an when we mean one of something or
somebody. We do not use a before plurals.
A is used before a word that begins with a consonant sound.
An is used before words that begin with a vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u).
A and An are called the indefinite articles.
The means a particular person or thing we are talking about. It is called the definite
article.
Use of A, An
A is used before only countable nouns or words that start with a consonant sound.
a fan a table a cow a bat
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