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A Thousand and One Questions
and Answers on English Grammar by Benjamin Hathaway
Articles
Question 1. What is the general character of the article?
The articles are adjective words used
with nouns to limit their meaning.
Question 2. Name them and state their origin.
The. The weakened form of the demonstrative adjective that.
A or an. A weakened form of the numeral one.
Question 3. How are articles divided
into definite and indefinite. Question 4. State the use
of each. A definite article makes
the noun denote some particular thing. The is the only one in the
language and may be used before nouns either singular
or plural as the man the children an
indefinite article leaves the meaning
indefinite of the modified noun general. A is used before words
beginning with a consonant sound,
an before those beginning with a vowel sound, as a company,
an organ, an army.
