Articles

There are only three articles: the, a and an. They are very small words which cause very large problems if used incorrectly. If, for example, you wanted someone to hand you the book, but you accidentally said a book, the other person might take some time to go shopping for a book they thought you’d like. While one can never have too many books, work doesn’t get done if we go book shopping every time we need to look up a word in the dictionary. Use of an article can also change the meaning of the noun:

dinner = the evening meal

a dinner = an evening meal held for some kind of event

the dinner = a specific evening meal which was held for some kind of event

• What Are Articles?
• Uses of Articles
• Definite Article: The
• Indefinite Articles: A and An
• The Used With All
• Unnecessary Definite Article
• Most/Some/All Of + Plural Noun Without The
• Using Articles With Pronouns
• Indefinite Article With Uncountable Noun
• Indefinite Article With A Plural Noun
• Unnecessary article
• Geographical Use of Definite Article The
• Omission of Articles