ARTICLE : A, AN, THE

 I have a pencil a and an are used in front of a singular noun

 I live in an apartment
 I have a small apartment
 I live in an old building
(e.g, pencil, apartment), they mean ‘one’.
If a singular noun is modified by an adjective
(e.g, small, old), a or an comes in front of the
adjective.

a is used in front of words begin with a

consonant (e.g pencil, small).

An is used in front of words begin with vowel

(a, e, i, o) (e.g, an apartment, an old)
 I saw a dog in my yard. a and an are used to talk about non – specific
 Mary ate an apple. person or thing.
 I need a pencil
In example ‘I saw a dog in my yard.’ It was not
a specific dog (you didn’t know who has that
dog). It was only one dog of the whole of
group of animals called dog.
1. Did you feed the dog? In example 1, the speaker and the listener are
2. Kay is in the kitchen thinking about the same of specific dog. The
3. The sun is shining. listeners know which dog the speaker is talking
4. Please close the door. about.
5. The president is speaking on television.
The is used to talk about a specific person or
thing. The speaker and the listener have known
the person or thing that they are talking about.