The article
ARTICLE The demonstrative Adjectives a, an , the are called Articles. As they are used in almost every sentence, they may not be considered a separate part of speech. It is more correct to class them as adjectives: There are two kinds of articles a or an and the. A and An are called Indefinite Article because they do not refer to a particular person or thing Their function is not to define but to generalize a thing. They are used before the things that we can count. The Indefinite Article is used before singular countable nouns; as A pen, an egg, a boy, a man, an umbrella. The is called the Definite Article because it defines some particular person or thing. The Definite Article is used before singular countable nouns, plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns; as The chair, the chairs, the sugar, the milk. Use of the indefinite Article 1 . The indefinite article 'a' is used before a singular word beginning with a c...