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| − | + | Within the closed class, there are articles, which in English, always accompany a noun. An article that is indefinite indicates that the noun that the article is accompanying is a non specific noun that cannot be set apart from nouns with the same name. For example in the sentence: "''The'' girl got ''a'' doll", ''a'' is not specifying any particular doll, but ''the'' is specifying a particular girl. | |
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Revision as of 15:23, 19 November 2011
Within the closed class, there are articles, which in English, always accompany a noun. An article that is indefinite indicates that the noun that the article is accompanying is a non specific noun that cannot be set apart from nouns with the same name. For example in the sentence: "The girl got a doll", a is not specifying any particular doll, but the is specifying a particular girl.
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References
- Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press..
