Hello everyone, I am Amaka ,I am new to hive community and this is my first post here .Today I want to talk about English articles ,we apply them almost every time we speak . follow me as I explain.Thanks
ARTICLE DEFINITION
An article is defined as a word that modifies or describes a noun. articles can also be described as a type of adjective as they also tell us something about the noun, just like adjectives.
Types of articles.
There are two types of articles in the English language, they are indefinite articles (a, an) and definite article (the).
Definite Article
Definite means to be clear or obvious.
For example:
The goat ate the grasses.
The cat attacked me and ran away.
In both examples above, it is clear that a particular goat ate the grasses in the first sentence and a specific cat attacked the speaker is being talked about in the second example.
INDEFINITE ARTICLES
Indefinite means something is not clear. These types of articles are called indefinite because the identity of the thing or person being spoken about is left unclear or indefinite.
Example. 1.An elephant fell into the pool.
- Do you have a pen
As a general rule, we use "a" for nouns that start with a consonant sound and "an" for nouns that start with a vowel sound.
About the author.
My name is Amaka from Nigeria, I am a teacher, I studied education biology BSC . I love impacting knowledge and educating people. Thanks for dropping by.