Articles

Here's something fun for your review. Articles are those little parts of speech that announce the coming of nouns. They function much like a herald if you will. Here's what it looks like.

The cat in a hat would like to have a bat.

Can you guess where the articles are? That's right. They're listed as follows:

A

An

The

Don't forget about

And

Or

Which are conjunctions that join two different parts of the sentence together. See, you could either have this or this and that thing or that other one over there. Take your pick. I would like to have a cat, bat, or a hat. I can also put and in there too, but that's not the point. Here, I've bolded them for you.

A cat sits with a bat and a hat.

Don't forget that with is a preposition indicating location. You could easily have a cat by itself or a cat beside a bat and hat. I'm not sure, but I think one of the two is a little more fun, don't you? While you're reading this, can you pick out where all the articles are? Try it if you like. You're getting better and better. Some languages make their articles agree with the nouns if they are gendered and numbered. This means that some words are female, and others are male. I'm not sure who agreed on that, but that's just the way it is unless they belong to someone in particular. Let's say the book is female and the pen is male. The articles would also be female before the book and male before the pen unless of course there are multiple books and pens involved which would make all the articles gendered and plural. Are you feeling misgendered? I certainly am. That's because at this point it's confusing to try to insert a person into that mix because you don't know what they or the rest of the sentence will do. Imagine living with such grammatical confusion. Thankfully not every language is like that, however. There are some that do not use all the cases and language contained therein. I would refer to the spoken or written cases of language in your culture to figure out the use.