English Articles - 3 Simple Rules To Fix Common Grammar Mistakes & Errors

This lesson will teach you three simple rules to help you to use English articles better.
I KNOW this is a lesson that you need to watch because articles are one of the most complicated parts of English grammar!
There are lots of rules and lots of exceptions for using English articles, so in this lesson, I've tried to explain them more clearly to you.
There are three English articles - a, an and the. It is also possible to have no article. Using each of these articles changes the meaning of your sentence.
Even though articles are a challenging part of speaking English, they are a really important part of English!
They give information about the noun they come before. Using articles incorrectly can make your sentences confusing or sound strange!
To improve your English fluency and sound more natural you need to use English articles well.
To get better exam results, you need to improve the way you use articles - especially in your writing tests!
I hope these three simple rules will help you to do that!
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00:00 Introduction
00:42 Why this is important
02:30 Types of articles
04:36 The difference between definite and indefinite articles
05:41 When to use a/an or the
07:24 Articles and unique nouns
11:58 Speaking about a noun in general
Read the full transcript of this video on my blog: www.mmmenglish.com/2017/07/19...
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Emma, As a native English speaker, we learn this by default and don't give it a second thought. I suspect most native English speakers couldn't even tell you what an article is, let alone know that there are rules about their use. A very interesting lesson that I never thought would be such a problem for non-native speakers.

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Use "an" before a word that starts with a vowel. Use "a" for everything else. There may be a little more to it than that, but what I wrote will cover 99% of the usage of it.

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Emma, aren't you forgetting the so-called "zero article"? This is very peculiar when we compare English with other European languages and causes a lot of problems to elementary and even intermediate students. For example, in Spanish we say "Me encantan LAS series de Netflix", while in English we say "I love Netflix series", so there's no article here. The same happens in French, Italian, Portuguese and all the Romance languages in general.

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Hi Savy, You said: "I'm new member from Cambodia.". It is better to say: "I'm A new member from Cambodia." (You need an article of "A" before "new"). If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let me know. Best, Albert

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Hello, Ms. Emma! Thank you for your lesson! It really is helpful! I was just hoping that you could clarify one thing from your lesson to me. What is the difference between the two statements? 1. "unique nouns, which usually use A definite article (the)" (it pops up on the screen) vs. 2. "unique nouns, which usually use THE definite article" (you said it in the summary to the lesson). Looking forward to hearing from you, thanks!

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I paid attention to what popped up on the screen and nowhere I saw "unique nouns, which usually use A definite article" it says THE DEFINITE ARTICLE (which is the only correct form being THE one and not more than two, that is UNIQUE!

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The person stood up when "he" saw a cat. (they)

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The person stood up when "they" (or He/she) saw a cat.

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Have a small doubt though not related to usage of article......: You wrote, "..... when THEY saw a cat" Is it not, "....when HE saw a cat? How did you for the word ' THEY'? By saying so you have implied that there were many people. Is it ok to write like that? Do you mind clarifying?

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