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7 7 Articles: A, An, The
Warm up
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Fill in the missing articles in the conversation given below.
Mother : Rishab, what do you want for your birthday?
Rishab : I want __________ bicycle. It’s __________ bicycle we saw last week.
Mother : We will get it. Do you want anything else?
Rishab : I also want __________ ice cream cake on my birthday.
Mother : Okay, let’s go and first buy __________ bicycle.
The words a, an, and the are called articles.
A and an are called indefinite articles.
The is called the definite article.
A/an is used before singular countables: common and collective nouns.
A/an is never used before singular uncountables: abstract and material nouns.
The is used before all kinds of nouns when they are definite.
Use of ‘A’
The article a is used before the countable singular noun that begins with a consonant
sound.
1. Every sentence has a verb.
2. A snake caught a frog.
3. Her brother is a doctor.
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