KELOMPOK 1 KELAS 1B

KELOMPOK 1 :

1.      SALMA DAMAYANTI

2.      MELLA RUSDIYANTI ELSA PUTRI

3.      URFIDHA LETJAR IRYANTI

4.      INUNG FIDI ASTUTI

5.      DINI ANTIKA NURFITRYA

CLASS           :           1B/PBI

THE ARTICLE (a, an and the)

An Article is a word placed before a noun to limit its application, or to mark the extent og its meaning;-as, A cart; an owl; the man.

In the example, -“ a cart,” “an owl,” i.e., any cart, or any owl, a and an limit the meaning of the nouns, “cart,” and owl,” to one cart and one owl:- so a and an are articles.

In the example-“ the man,” the does not mean any man, but some particular man ;-so the is an article.

The indefinite article is used before nouns which mean number ;-as, A dozen, a many, a hundred.

Because a and an may mean any cart, or any owl, they are called indefinite articles.

Because the means some particular man it is called the definite article.

There are only two articles, the definite article the, and the indefinite article, an or a.

How to use articles,-use the a before words beginning with a consonant; -as, a fly; except where a word has its name sound, as, union, which should be, a union ; except too, where word begin with a diphthong, as, European, or ewe, which should be, a European, a ewe. We also say, many a one. The article a is a contraction of an.

Use the an (the same word as a, with another letter to it), before word beginning with a vowel; -as, an arm; except where a word begins with an h, which is not sounded; -as hour, an honour, an heir, an herb, an hotel and a few more; and except too, where the h  is sounded, when the accent is on the second syllable, as-an historical event.

Use no article when speaking of an entire class of common things; -as, man is mortal.

Sumber : The Young Students English Grammar For Schools, John Heywook’d New Education Works