ARTICLES - A NEW APPROACH

 ARTICLES

There are 3 words in the language.

A

An

THE

These are called ARTICLES. They just denote some nouns or noun phrase.

‘A’ and ‘AN’ are called INDEFINITE ARTICLES while the remains ‘THE’ is called DEFINITE ARTICLE.

A boy (any boy) INDEFINITE

An Institution (any institution) INDEFINITE

The boy (the particular boy) DEFIITE

The Institution (the particular Institution) DEFINITE

In Indefinite, 

‘A’ is used before a word that starts a consonant sound and ‘AN’ is used before a word that begins a vowel sound.

The same thing happens in Definite article.

‘THE’ is used and pronounced as "DHA' when it is used before a word that begins a consonant sound, while it sounds as "DHI" when it appears before a word that begins a vowel sound.

How to identify the place whether one is indefinite or definite..?

"I saw a man with an umbrella in his hand. the man was struggling with the umbrella to fold it.

A boy came and helped THE man. In ending the boy asked the man where he was from.

the man replied that he was an MLA of a constituency."

Take care of using indefinite articles before a word that may not begin with vowel letter but vowel sound 

AN MLA (EMELYAE), 

AN MD (EMDEE)

AN HOUR (AUR)

Sometimes, some vowel letters might not give vowel sound. 

A UNIT (YOONIT)

A EUROPEAN (YOOROPEAN)

A EUCALYPTUS TREE (YOOKOLIPTAS)

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MAHENDIRAN V