A, An, and The ...or is it THEE?! - Learn Articles in English

Learn EVERYTHING about articles in English in this video!
As soon as you understand one section, move to the next following the timestamps!
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0:17 - Grammar Rules and Pronunciation for A / An / The
9:52 - Pronunciation and Emphasis!
11:28 - Rules for NO Article
14:15 - Common Mistakes with Articles in English
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[@Vivaswaan.]

I wish English was taught like this in school. After all this time, I still get confused and not know where to use them correctly. Also the classes weren't this engaging. So thanks Aly. I'm grateful. PS: Don't tell this to my school teacher

[@MrReidarr]

I chose to watch the entire video, not because I already know about articles, but I enjoy your content. Keep it up Papa!

[@AlexAnghelone]

And that, kids, is how you make Italians freak out instantly 😆 Love from Italy, you're THE best teacher.

[@AndresGomez-yd4ch]

I’d had the doubt about “thee” and “ei” pronunciations long ago, thanks for clarifying it.

[@aysebetulozer1214]

Today my teacher said me" you have to study articles" and now i am watching this video thank you very very much

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Merhaba ,!! Ayşe are u from Turkey?

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@@supriya1323 Do you know any Tukish or do you want to starr? And what is your English level ?And also if I have friend from India I wil be happy too :)

[@VasilisaLukashevich]

Thanks, Aly. If you don’t mind, I want to add some article-life-hack: “a” comes from the word “any”, “the” derives from “this”. It helps me a lot!

[@alenunya]

I thought a comes from one

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[@NelsonCWB]

I will watch several times for undestanding this video. I' m learning now those rules. Thank you, Teacher!

[@andreamagdaleno5774]

Amazing all the video! In all time I studied English nobody said me the diference between The and Thee😂💪🏻. I love you

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The first one online teacher who explained the usage of emphatic "the" correctly! Wonderful!

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Awesome! This is such a valid video. It's crazy how much people struggle with these articles!

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This video was way too useful and easy to understand! Thank you

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This video about articles is the best informative and meticulous one that I've watched ❤️ thank you so much

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Thank you for your excellent explanation. I could understand the usage of articles so easily.

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This lesson was amazing!!! Thank you so much from Argentina!!!

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Omg you explained absolutely everything about the problem of understanding articles.

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I just shared this with my students. Great explanations!

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Thanks a lot dear teacher , you're the best, please make a video about singulars and plurals too.❤🌼🌹

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Clear speech, not too difficult for beginners, well done

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Let me just say that you’re the most fun teacher on KZbin. Love watching your lessons. I was hoping you would do one about past simple and past perfect. Would love to see how you would explain them. My students have a hard time using them when telling a story. Well, all narrative tenses, actually. Thanks for giving me inspiration. 🥳

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[@plentotan]

Defo gonna keep this in my watch list. Thanks a lot. Now I can explain the articles to my students.

[@anitatabassummowri13]

Thank u so much Aly.i had asked u about the video of 'da' 'de' uses..finally u made it. Thanks Aly.

[@alessandravalmadre7512]

Perfect lesson at the perfect time! I teach English to kids and this week's lesson is about articles! You gave me amazing insights! Thank God English doesn't have the amount of articles Italian has, it would be dreadful to explain it to children! Also, I loved your jokes about Italians ahahah Love from Italy

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The brilliant lesson, thanks a mil!

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I enjoy with your videos you make the grammar pleasant and this is not easy when you use this format in your videos it seems more useful than when you share the video with other even when the other is so good than you, I refer to yesterday's video, in this case, two good communicators didn't add.

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Cheers! The lesson is straight fire

[@saifulanswer]

Learning the article never been this fun. Hey Aly, thanks for this video 💕

[@maya.7057]

Thank you very much, Aly! This is one of the most difficult questions for the languages which don't have any articles. Your lesson is really helpful! And I like your new definition - specific and non-specific articles. It matches better.

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Much better, right?

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You have explained the articles better than my prof, you did great Cheers!!

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[@romankulagin6247]

Having a real spontaneous conversation, that's quite difficult to realize which article should be used. How to choose them naturally, not memorizing all those cases of using them?

[@user-uz4mh1iu7d]

When you're talking to someone and not sure which article you should use just think about whether your collocutor knows about the thing you want to speak. If he doesn't know about it yet since you haven't introduced it then use A or AN. It's not a completely correct rule but in most cases, it works fine. Anyway practice makes perfect

[@papateachme]

This is a great question!!! When learning a language, remember that the rules are just references. Come back to them when u have questions, or have time to practice in your own time. The more practice u have, the more natural you'll sound in conversation. Hope that helps 🤘🤓❤️

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Роман Раут Ok, thanks It’s fairly hard for me either to realize the difference between ‘a’ and zero articles when I try to speak about something in general way.

[@papateachme]

Don't worry mate, it'll come with time and practice. I know it can be frustrating though 😂🤷‍♂️ sorry!

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[@Edkamilo]

Blow mind! As you said, now everything makes sense! I always had doubts about the pronunciation of "A" "An" and "The". Thank you, this video really helped me! Btw, I'm colombian, and... tu acento colombiano es paisa Lol

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[@marta1260]

Oh, it all make sense now 😁 Thank you!

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THE best explanation I've ever heard

[@kerimhadzibegovic1144]

Thanks Aly. The lesson I need, the lesson about articles and in relaxed and smooth approach. In general, when I approach to a native speaker I have those little ' particles ' on my mind , 'cause they are little but very important for the meaning of the word , especially when you need to drop them. Exp. a hair (just ! 1)/ black hair or my 'gut ' english (intuition): She has a curly hair. The next example is on the slippery slope, [ I red in the english (specific !) grammar ],... so it was made by tourist guide, after performance of the folklore dancers : " Would you give them a clap? When english tourists heard that they burst into laugh. She didn't know that she asked them to give them STD, instead : " Give them clap ! ". All the best Kerim

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aly thanks ever so much for the lesson! may i ask you to make a video about old-fashion-british-expressions? much obliged. and yes i'm obsessed with mr darcy

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Great teacher.

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The mind blowing lesson. Thank you :)

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Thank you so much !

[@aliaghaei5732]

This is one of the most important and challenging topics in English . Although you explained many situations for the correct usage of articles, I feel like there are still a lot more things we are not aware as English learners . Please elaborate on this topic in your further videos .. thanks

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Thank you so much Aly, Could you please teach us about " which or That and Who " How to use those correctly to combine two sentence . *)

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Thank you for today’s lesson. I hope you can make a video like an advanced lesson about the possessive apostrophe; when to use it and when not. For example, it’s the boys school (a school for boys) and it’s is the boy’s school (a school owned by a boy). In some cases i feel like confused when it should be used or not. I hope I’ve managed to make myself clear and thank you heaps again for all the efforts, lessons and the humour ☺️🌼

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[@Tamko_Music]

The most complicated thing for me has always been when NOT to use articles. And still it is. For example "I know, I can change reality". Native speakers told me that you don't need an article here, but I have a strict feeling, the reality is the only one, like the Universe. Cases like this are not very clear still.

[@imsemin]

it was useful, thx Aly

[@gabimosqueraperez7511]

Oh, I didn’t know about the pronunciation of “the”. 😱😱😱 Tks. (btw, I was dying for that chocolate cookie!! It looked so yummy. 😋😋😋😋)

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Well! I watched the video till thee end because I enjoyed watching it.

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Excellent!

[@rebedv]

Hi Aly, I did make it to the end, just to hear it all... :) I'd love a video on "defining relaive clauses" (who, which/that, where)! I find it especially hard to know when you talk about a place (London is a place where... / London is a place that...)

[@romankulagin6247]

Would it be possible to make a lesson, explaining gerunds in Perfect, Passive and Active forms and their use as nouns and adjectives. Thanks.

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what an useful lesson🥰

[@maurosanna5674]

Hi Ali, about "the" used with UK etc, I prefer to explain it by the consideration that united kingdom, united states, nether lands etc are actually not proper nouns : kingdom, states, land etc.

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[@mamymimma]

English articles are rather tricky, but this is thee lesson to clarify our doubts 👍 By the way, let's be grateful there are fewer articles than in Italian: un, uno, una, un', il , lo, la, l', i, gli, le!

[@papateachme]

Omg let's definitely be grateful for that at least hahah!