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8. Articles : A, An and The

You know that there are 26 letters in the English alphabet.

u

a
o
i
e
The letters , , , and are vowels . All other letters are called

.
consonants A and An are indefinite articles and they are used with
A

nouns that are not definite. So, and An means one or any.
A
‘a’ is used before words beginning with consonants or consonant

sound. For example :

a book a horse a car

a door a baby a lamp

a fish a tree a teacher

a tube a box a banana

a woman a hut a ball

An

‘an’ is used before words beginning with vowels or vowel sound.

For example :

an ox an umbrella an onion

an egg an insect an engine

an owl an apple an ice-cream

an ass an actor an octopus

‘an’ is used before words beginning with silent ‘h’.

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