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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.   
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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 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 15:24, 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.

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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.