Articles are function words, which are not stressed in sentences and cannot be used independently. Can only be placed in front of nouns to help explain t
Articles are function words, which are not stressed in sentences and cannot be used independently. Can only be placed in front of nouns to help explain the person or thing that nouns refer to. It is the smallest category of English parts of speech, with only three, one is indefinite article and the other is definite article. In addition, there are some special occasions where articles are not used, which is commonly known as zero articles. Among them, the article is abbreviated as "art". The following is a summary of the usage of the article I compiled, hoping to let everyone learn the article well and improve their English.
How to learn articles quickly and well
Many people feel helpless about the usage of articles. In fact, as long as you remember some formulas, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
First of all, the usage of definite articles is cleverly remembered.
Specifically, revisiting and uniqueness, islands, straits and bays, oceans, political parties, supreme order,
Deserts, rivers and mountains, orientation order and musical instruments, years, groups and institutions,
Name of ship, building and organization, conference treaty and newspaper, plural surname and full name of country, please remember to use crown.
Second, the usage formula of the zero article
Chinese rose flower week is a festival. Before calling for titles and responsibilities,
Three-meal ball idiom, before the subject chess noun.
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Articles can be divided into indefinite article a/ an and definite article the, and the latter can be divided into indefinite article, definite article and no article. Its basic usage can be memorized by the following formula:
Generally refers to the use of a/ an, singular countable; Use, not.
[Note] 1 generally refers to the use of a/ an, and singular countable -a/ an should be used before singular countable nouns.
2 use the- if it is specific, then the singular, plural or uncountable nouns should be preceded by the.
3 Don't pay special attention to the-unless otherwise specified, don't use the, including three situations: a/ an before singular of general countable nouns, no article before plural of general countable nouns and no article before uncountable nouns.
We can summarize the collocation of articles and nouns as follows:
essay
Singular countable nouns
Plural countable nouns
uncountable noun
A/An
Books refer to
this
Books refer to
Special reference to books
Bread especially
No articles.
Books generally refer to
Bread refers to
I. the use of indefinite articles:
When the indefinite article a/ an is used before a singular countable noun, it must be judged according to the first phoneme of the following word. A is followed by a word or letter that starts with a consonant phoneme, and an is followed by a word or letter that starts with a vowel phoneme. For example:
A book, a Japanese car and an egg are silent for an hour. The initial phoneme of the letter S of an "S" is [e], and the initial phoneme of the letter U of a "U" is [j].
2. The use of definite articles:
The definite article The has many uses and is very complicated, so students often make mistakes. In fact, the usage of can be remembered and understood by the following formula:
In particular, Shuang Familiarity, as mentioned above, is unique in the world and has the highest ordinal number. There are some proper nouns, idioms and musical instruments.
[Note] 1 Used to "specifically" people or things that both sides know in the dialogue. For example:
Where is the teacher?
Where is the teacher?
Used before the above people or things. For example:
I can see a cat. This cat belongs to Lucy.
I can see a cat. This cat belongs to Lucy.
Used in front of something unique in the world. For example:
The earth moves around the sun.
The earth moves around the sun.
Used before ordinal number or superlative adjective. For example:
Mike is the tallest of the three boys.
Mike is the tallest of the three boys.
Used before proper nouns composed of common nouns. For example: the Great Wall, People's Park, etc.
Used before some idioms or musical instrument nouns. During the day, play the piano, etc.
Three. When the articles are not used:
The following formula can help us remember the situation that we don't use articles before nouns:
Proper nouns are uncountable before pronouns modify nouns. The plural noun list generally refers to the three meals of a theme ball game, before the season, week, month, color, language and country name, address idioms and address.
[Note] When the noun 1 is preceded by some attributive determiners such as this, that, these, my, your, his, her, our, their, some, etc., the article is not used. For example: this eraser, her pencil box, some boxes, these women, and so on.
Generally speaking, there is no article before uncountable nouns. Such as: meat, rice, water, bread, tea, milk, juice and so on.
When plural nouns refer to general terms, articles are not used. For example:
The man in the room is a doctor.
Those people in the room are doctors.
Generally, there is no article before nouns indicating disciplines. Such as: Chinese, English, mathematics, physics, history, etc. There are generally no articles before the nouns of three meals and ball games. For example: eating breakfast/lunch/dinner, playing basketball/football, etc.
Don't use articles before seasons, festivals, weeks and months. For example, autumn, summer, winter, spring, Teachers' Day, Children's Day, Sunday, February and so on.
Don't use articles before expressing colors, languages and national nouns. Such as: white, brown, France, Australia, etc.
Before the nouns of address forms, there is no article before the nouns of positions and titles. For example:
Dr. Green is a scientist.
Dr. Green is a scientist.
Article usage formula:
The noun is baldy and often wears a hat.
The countable noun list must use a or an.
Use a before consonants, an before vowels,
A fixed crown must be used if specified.
Complex numbers are uncountable, which generally means invisible.
When it comes to pronouns, articles don't appear.
The definite article uses the formula:
There is only one thing in the world, and the order is high.
Wealth and wounded soldiers are counted by the day, and the musical instrument theater is located.
Islands, rivers, lakes, oceans, desert straits and bays.
The name of class, party and country usually comes before the compound surname.
Organizations and organs, dynasties, conferences and newspapers.
Double knowledge hitting the face refers to special things and habits.
Usage formula of definite article
1. Is there water or no lake: sea, ocean, bay, river, etc. Both use; A single lake is not used, but multiple lakes are used;
Red Sea, Pacific Ocean, Persian Gulf, Yangtze River
Great lakes; Lake Erie
2. There is a ball without stars: the earth and the moon are used; Planets are not used: Mars, Venus;
3. There are mountains without peaks: Huangshan; Mount Everest;
Mount Tai.
4. There is a unique European couple: unique, the earth, the moon and the sun are all used;
Not used in Europe and other seven continents.
Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Antarctica, Oceania
5. Footless sports: ethnic Indians; ball games
Baseball, basketball
6. No chapter: the use of historical archives; Don't use chapters in novels and so on.
Constitution; chapter one
7. Learn but not specialize: the school uses the before the phrase; Don't use proper nouns before phrases;
Fudan University; Fudan University