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| − | Within the closed class, there are articles, which in English, always accompany a noun. An article that is '''definite''' indicates that the noun it is accompanying is a specific noun that is to be set a part from all other nouns. For example in the sentence: "The boy got the basketball", ''The'' is specifying a particular boy, not just ''a'' boy. “A” and “an”, are indefinite articles in English. | + | Within the closed class, there are articles, which in English, always accompany a noun. An article that is '''definite''' indicates that the noun it is accompanying is a specific noun that is to be set a part from all other nouns of the same name. For example in the sentence: "The boy got the basketball", ''The'' is specifying a particular boy, not just ''a'' boy. “A” and “an”, are indefinite articles in English. |
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
Revision as of 14:24, 19 November 2011
Within the closed class, there are articles, which in English, always accompany a noun. An article that is definite indicates that the noun it is accompanying is a specific noun that is to be set a part from all other nouns of the same name. For example in the sentence: "The boy got the basketball", The is specifying a particular boy, not just a boy. “A” and “an”, are indefinite articles in English.
See Also
External Links
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)
- http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/apics/index.php/Definite_Articles_(Feature_28)
References
- Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
