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Definite and Indefinite Articles

September 19, 2009

There are two main articles in the English language – a and the. A variant to the first article is an, which is used before words that begin with vowels. Articles are used before nouns, and just like adjectives (also used before nouns), articles also modify nouns. Know what modify means? It means ‘to change’ [...]

ESL Lesson Plan: A, An, The

September 13, 2009

This is a lesson plan for teaching articles that was requested by a reader. Articles are possibly the simplest, yet the most most arbitrary grammar rules to learn. Most languages apart from English do not have articles, and I know most ESL students are completely flummoxed by their need. But well, strange is the English [...]

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