Articles And Their Uses Part-2

 

Part-2

We use indefinite article a or an:

(a) To introduce a countable noun for the first time:

• There is a boy outside. Ask the boy to come in. The first sentence tells us about a boy whom we don’t know. The second sentence refers to this particular boy who is outside. So we use the definite article the in the second sentence.

• I have a ball-pen and a pencil. The ball-pen is mine; the pencil is his.

• There is a tree outside my house. The tree is shedding its leaves.

(b) To refer to a person or a thing as representative of a class:

• A cow gives milk. (= Every cow gives milk.)

• A garden has tree. (= Every garden has trees.)

• A rat hates a cat.

• A rose is a beautiful flower.

(c) . In expressions of rate, speed, measure, etc. a or an means each or any:

• How much money does he earn a day?

• Take this medicine three times a day.

• This car runs at sixty kilometres an hour.

• Sugar sells at thirty shillings a kilogram.

• The steamer comes to this port twice a month.

• You can buy only half a kilogram of sugar at a time.

• The train will halt here for half an hour.

• I want only half a cup.

(d) Before names of professions:

• He is a college lecturer.

• I wanted to be a doctor.

• Ali does not want to be an accountant.

• Faiqa hopes to be an air hostess.

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