Грамматический материал на урок английского языка по теме "Артикль"

The articles

The article is a structural part of speech used as a determiner with nouns. The article is unchangeable.

There are no articles only in Russian and Italian languages.

The article is placed before the noun or a phrase with a noun.

The are 3 types of articles in English: the indefinite article, the definite article and zero article.

The indefinite article a/an ( is unmarked member – it has no meaning of identification). It is used with nouns in the singular form. It  has generalizing meaning. It is used to refere one thing  to a class  of singular things.

f.e. She is a doctor

The form a is used before words beginning with a consonant sound, e.g. a book , a university

The form an is used before words beginning with a vowel sound, e.g. an apple .

The definite article The  ( is marked member – it is marked by meaning of identification).

It is used with nouns in the singular & in the plural form.( with countable & uncountable nouns) The definite article used when we speak about definite subject.  F. e. The village was old

 No articles:

Before the nouns modified by the pronouns: possessive: my, his, her, that, these

Before plural countable nouns in general sense. Children learn a lot from playing.