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11. Uses of Articles (A, An and The)
Vowels and Consonants : The English alphabet consists of 26 letters in all. Of
e
a
o
u
i
these , , , and are vowels. The rest of them are consonants.
Article – ‘A’
Look at the following pictures :
a pen horse banana
a
a
a
a
a bat girl doctor
The words pen, horse, banana, bat, girl and doctor are all nouns. All of them are
singular in number. They begin with a consonant sound and we use ‘ ’ before
a
each one of them.
Examples : a bag, a city, a school, etc.
We use ‘ ’ before common nouns which are singular in number and begin with a
a
consonant sound.
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