ARTICLES Prepared by
CH.SAMPATH REDDY Head of General Section (English Faculty) QQ. Government Polytechnic HYDERABAD-INDIA
ARTICLES ST EP-I Can your reader/listener identify the NOUN from the context or by reference? i.e Can he/she answer what ?/which? or where? YES
USE “the”
NO
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Is the NOUN PLURAL?
YES
USE “NO
NO
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Is the NOUN COUNTABLE?
YES
USE “a/an”
NO
USE “NO
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DETERMINERS SPECIFIC:the
this, that, these, those my, our, your, his, her, its, their
GENERAL a, all, an, another, any, both, each, either, enough, every, :
few, fewer, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, no, other, several, some
IMPORTANT: Singular Nouns cannot be used without a determiner TWO determiners of same kind are never combined SPECIFIC and GENERAL DETERMINERS are sometimes combined