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Use of Articles - A, An, The | CBSE Class 2 English

Use of Articles - A, An, The | CBSE Class 2 English 

An article is a word used to customize a noun, which is a place, person, object, or idea. Technically, an article is an adjective.  Generally, adjectives customize nouns through description, but articles are used to refer or point out to nouns. There are two different types of articles: definite and indefinite articles.
‘A’ and ‘An’ are Indefinite articles and ‘The’ is Definite articles.
‘A’ is used before common nouns which are in singular number, and which begin with a consonant sound. Example – a book, a tree, a cow, a school, etc.
‘AN’ is used before common nouns which are in singular number, and which begin with a vowel sound. A, e, I, o, and u are vowels. Example – an elephant, an airplane, an umbrella, an orange, an ink-pot, etc.
Note: the words ‘hour’ and ‘honest’ begin with the consonant ‘h’, but the ‘h’ is silent. Therefore, we use ‘an’ before them – ‘an honest boy’, ‘an hour’.
The definite article ‘the’ is used in the following cases.
  1. When a singular noun represents a whole class.
The camel is a beast of burden. (Here the singular noun ‘camel’ is used to refer to all the camels.)
Note: when a plural noun is used to talk about things in general, articles are usually omitted.
Example: Camels are beasts of burden, Computers are costly.
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