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