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English Year 5 Grammar
 ‘a’ and ‘an’ are used before nouns (singular and countable) to introduce someone or
something we have not mentioned before.
“a”和“an”用于名词之前（单数和可数的）以介绍之前未曾提及的人或物。
‘a’ + singular noun beginning with a consonant “a”+ 以辅音字母开头的单数名词
a ring a balloon a table a jet a kangaroo
a label a man a tiger a clock a picture

‘a’ + singular noun beginning with the ‘you’ sound
“a”+ 以“you”音开头的单数名词

a unit a European a university a uniform a ukulele
a U-turn a UFO a unionist a utensil a unit trust
‘an’ + singular noun beginning with a vowel “an”+ 以元音字母开头的单数名词
an email an object an organ an usher an oven
an actor an iceberg an invitation an eagle an oasis

‘an’ + nouns starting with a silent ‘h’ “an”+ 以“h”不发音为开头的名词
an honour an heiress an honouree an hour
an honest man an heir an heirloom an hourglass

 ‘The’ is used before singular or plural nouns that we already know about. We use it
when we want to indicate or refer to:
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“the”用于己知晓的单数或复数的名词之前，用于指：
something or someone specific. 特定的人或物。
The lady who painted this picture is famous.
I live in the small house with a green gate.
something unique or when there is only one such thing in the world.
独特的或世上独一无二的人或物。
The sun rose at a quarter past six this morning.

Dark clouds drifted across the sky.
something which has already been mentioned. 之前已被提及的事物。
Last Friday, a burglar broke into my neighbour’s house. The burglar hasn’t been
caught yet.

the superlatives or ordinal numbers. 形容词的最高级形式或序数词。
Wai Ming is the tallest person in our class.
This is the third time I have called you today.
names of geographical areas, rivers, oceans, seas, mountains or groups of islands.
地理区域、河流、海洋、海、山脉或群岛的名称。
The ship crossed the Atlantic in seven days.
A gentle breeze was blowing from the east.

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