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Articles are an important OET grammar component.

These always come top of the list when it comes to
those tricky bits of English grammar that take a while to
click. The terminology can make the use of articles
sound confusing, but it is actually quite simple!
Read this article and have a go at the mini-tasks, and
you’ll have solved your article worries in a matter of
minutes…
Nouns:
Articles come before some nouns, so nouns are the best
place to start.
A noun can be a person, a place or an object. There are
many types of nouns and reading up on them will help
you to get your head around articles.
De nite/Inde nite
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Inde nite: a/an
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This type of article refers to an unspeci ed noun or you

could say any of the noun type.
De nite: the
This type of article refers to a speci c noun or a noun
that has already been referred to.
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Job Roles
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will often
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professionals. Job roles will always take an article. You
will need
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referring to is general (a/an) or speci c (the). Make up a

few phrases with the examples below.
E.g. The doctor has referred her to a psychiatrist.
a/the doctor
a/the nurse
a/the dentist
a/the psychiatrist
a/the support worker
an/the anaesthetist
Nouns describing patients
Nouns describing patients will also need to be preceded
by an article. In this case, you would sometimes be using
the de nite article as you are referring to a speci c
patient. However, there will be some instances where
you would use the inde nite article. Have a look at the
examples below and put them into some sentences.
E.g. The father of the child is a factory worker.
a/the woman
a/the father
a/the child
a/the widow
a/the factory worker
an/ the alcoholic
Uncountable nouns
These are nouns you cannot write article ‘a’ with. Some
of the uncountable nouns are”
pain
advice
assistance
cancer
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Listening and put some sentences together using both
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Sumi says:
August 13, 2019 at 3:10 pm (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-made-
easy-for-oet-candidates/#comment-1291)
Thank you benchmark team for helping me to to understand the
proper ways of writing.
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Farheen says:
August 22, 2019 at 12:16 pm (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-
made-easy-for-oet-candidates/#comment-1330)
Just know about benchmark 10 days before my exam.
Really wonderful guideline I’m receiving from them.
Very helpful.
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marita says:
thank you so much Benchmark for this wonderful guidelines. please i
need more clari cation on how to use article with uncountable
nouns.
does it mean that the article use in the following sentences are
wrong;
mrs Jones has a cancer
please i need more help here sir
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September 2, 2019 at 2:02 am
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Yes, with disease names use of article ‘a’ is incorrect. To help
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K.L.K.K Liyanage says:

November 17, 2019 at 10:05 am (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-
It’s great how simply you’re describing it. please let me know
whether we can put articles before symptoms, for example vomiting
,diarrhoea etc.
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November 19, 2019 at 12:07 am
yes, but remember there cannot be an article ‘a’ or ‘an’ if the
symptom is an uncountable noun such as pain.
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Amira says:
March 6, 2020 at 10:15 am (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-made-
easy-for-oet-candidates/#comment-1788)
Hi Dear
I want to know, how can I use articles with image investigations (e.g:
MRI, endoscopy and x-ray please ?
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March 10, 2020 at 12:53 am (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-
Yes, articles (a,an) are required with diagnostics. So, you will be
writing an MRI, an endoscopy, an X-ray and so on…
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Alaa says:
should I use an article for operation’s name, eg: chlecystectomy?
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August 14, 2020 at 9:45 am (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-
yes, it’s a singular noun
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Toncy Tomy says:

November 12, 2020 at 3:29 am
Should i use articles before surger name ?!
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affaf says:
September 6, 2020 at 2:23 pm (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-
we were taught that procedures names should not be capitalized.so
what do we write.An ECG was ordered or An ecg was ordered?
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September 10, 2020 at 5:08 am
ECG stands for electrocardiogram, hence it’s an abbreviation. I
am sure the one who taught you about procedures must have
informed you about abbreviations as well. All the best
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Sanjay says:
January 17, 2021 at 6:33 am (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/articles-
Thank you. please explain why do you use a for stroke (its disease
name) in this video
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January 17, 2021 at 12:32 pm
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/de nition/english/stroke_1
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