article
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- noun
- /ˈɑrtɪkəl/
:
artículo
- For example, in the U.K. articles, one finds the word 'pupils', whereas in the U.S. articles, one finds the word 'students'.
- definite article
- indefinite article
- use the article
And you could say that that's just like a grammatical article for clarity.
- And you could say that that's just like a grammatical article for clarity.
- No, I thought the article, because this is already the second class, we can put articles the determinative article.
Examples
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What kind of article?
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In English, we use the article 'the' to refer to something specific.
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-Do you have your article with you?
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We have to use the indefinite article...
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I suppose you and your father discussed that article of Bradshaw's?
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But it was the definite article that galvanized me.
Fiction book (1997) -
You were missing an article, so I assumed you were referring to a proper noun.
Blog text (30) -
A high rate of omission of articles would not be typical, although 3-year-olds are likely to make errors in article selection.
Academic text (2012) -
Articles during the framing of the Constitution indicate that members recognized conflicting interests.
Academic text (2017) -
For example, the article in the phrase "a ball" forms part of a weak-strong sequence, rendering it susceptible to omission.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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A word that comes before a noun to show which one, how many, or who owns it
Compounds
- Literature
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A long newspaper or magazine article that explains one subject in detail
- Formal
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An article that gives a short summary and opinion of other people's work like books or research
- Literature
An online article that uses exciting or false headlines to make people click
- Literature
A short informal news text that someone writes quickly with little research
Surface Forms
Etymology
Article comes from Latin articulus 'small part', and this idea of a 'tiny part' helps here: a grammatical article is a very small word that points to or joins with a noun. So words like 'the' and 'a' are called articles because they are the little parts that show which noun we mean.