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Lesson 4: Articles
Once upon a time, a rich greedy man hired an intelligent
mathematician. The rich man wanted the mathematician to find
the best way for him to make the greatest profit in everything he
did. The rich man was building a huge safe, and his greatest dream
was to fill it with gold and jewels. The mathematician was shut away
for months in his study, before finally believing he had found the
solution. But he soon found there were errors in his calculations, and
he started all over again.
The words ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ qualify the nouns that follow.
They are called articles.
We use ‘a’ before a singular countable noun which starts with a
consonant sound.
a car a united party a safety belt a man
a union a university a ewe a European
We use ‘an’ before a singular countable noun which starts with a vowel
sound.
an Asian an MA an S an incident
an H an enemy an Australian an FM radio
We use ‘the’ for a particular or definite object which can be either
singular or plural.
the moon the sun the radio the UK
the Bible the universe the poor the sky
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