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Articles:

An article is a word used to modify noun, which is an object, a person, a place or an idea. ‘A’, ‘An’,
‘The’ are called articles out of which, ‘A’ and ‘An’ are known as Indefinite articles while ‘The’ is
known as Definite article.

A/An:

A/An is used for singular countable nouns which are introduced for the first time, .i.e., they are
indefinite.

E.g. (I) She is girl. (N)

She is a girl. (Y)

(II) They purchased car. (N)

They purchased a car. (Y)

An is used only before the letters producing vowel sounds, i.e., the sounds produced while
speaking the vowels ‘a, e, i, o, u’.g. An honest woman.
If the word starts with a consonant sound, article ‘A’ is used. e.g. A one rupee note.

Note: You need to take care the pronunciation in case of an abbreviation as well.

Uses of Indefinite articles:

1. A/An is used before singular countable nouns. e.g. She has a pair of red shoes.

Note: Though ‘Noise’ is an uncountable noun, it takes article ‘a’ before it.

1. In case of exclamatory sentences, A/An is used after ‘what’ and ‘how’, and before the
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1. A/An will come before a verb which is used as a noun in a sentence.

e.g. Shalini goes for a walk daily.

Shyam has gone for a ride.

1. A/An can be used in place of ‘per’ in a sentence.

e.g. She completes 20 pages a week.

He runs twenty meters an hour.

1. A/An will be used before a noun when many/rather/such/quite takes a singular noun after
them. e.g.:

He was such a foolish guy.

It was quite an honorable moment.

Many a man would play the game that night.

She was rather a polite girl.

1. A is used before half/fractions.

e.g. Three and a half men

Mr. Sharma had to run half a km daily.

A is used with the words that indicate the number of countable nouns such as ‘hundred’, ‘dozen’,
‘couple’, ‘million’, thousand’ etc.

The:

The is known as definite article because it is used before definite nouns towards which
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someone can ‘point out’. Thus, definite nouns Article
are the nouns that we can ‘visualize’ or that has
‘already been introduced’. Hence, “The” is called as definite article.
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