English grammar notes, Study notes of English

Download English grammar notes and more Study notes English in PDF only on Docsity! A, An, The • Articles in a way are similar to adjectives. They also define a noun. Articles will help us specify whether the noun is a specific noun or an unspecific noun. • 'A', 'An', 'The' are called Articles. • 'A' and 'An' are called Indefinite Articles while 'The' is called Definite Article. • An is used only before vowel sounds. Remember ‘a, e, i, o, u’ do not necessarily produce vowel sound.  If the word starts not with vowel sound but with consonant sound, article ‘A’ is used. • (Example): An umbrella, A union, A one rupee note, An honest man, An hour, An honor, An honorable person, An honest man, An heir, A house, An honorarium, A historical monument, A young man. A/an are used before indefinite singular countable nouns. (Example): 1. I have a car 2. This is an orange 3. He sang a song. 4. Ram is a student. lf an adjective qualifies the noun, the ‘articles’ comes before the ‘adjective’. lexcellent| | student. | I Adjective Noun (Example): She is@n Article • Use the in sentences or clauses where you define or identify a particular person or object. • Examples 1. The man who wrote this book is famous. 2. I scratched the red car parked outside. 3. I live in the small house with a blue door. 4. He is the doctor I came to see. Once upon a time, there lived a king. The king was very kind. One day, he met an old man. The old man was very poor. (In the first sentence, 'a king' is introduced. In the second sentence, we have become familiar with the characters ‘king’ and hence ‘the’ come before ‘king’. and in the third sentence ‘an old man’ is introduced and in the fourth sentence after we have become familiar with the characters ‘old man’, ‘the’ comes before ‘old man’.) A, An, The example