不定冠词"a"用在辅音音素开头的单数可数名词前(a book);"an"用在元音音素开头的单数可数名词前(an apple)。定冠词"the"用于特指(the sun)、前文提及的事物(I bought a shirt. The shirt is blue)、以及独一无二事物(the Eiffel Tower)。 1. 判断命题完整性:问题明确要求解释冠词用法且附例证,命题完整...
It’s used when the noun begins with a vowel. That’s it. There are only three articles in English grammar; one is definite, and the other two are indefinite. Here are a few examples of articles in English: They’re doing a renovation at the school. This is the renovation people ...
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You’ve probably learned the rule that an comes before a vowel, and that a comes before a consonant. While this is generally true, it’s more accurate to say that an comes before a vowel sound, and a comes before a consonant sound. Let’s look at a couple of examples with a:...
Welcome to Oxford Online English! 欢迎来到牛津大学雅思外教课! In this lesson, you can test your ability to use articles: 'a', 'an' and 'the'. 本节课将测试你使用冠词 “a”、“an”和“the”的能力。 Here's how this lesson works. 这节课会这样进行。 There are five levels. 一共有五级...
Give students examples of how “the” is omitted altogether with certain nouns; these nouns generally have to be learned through memorization. For example, the words for “soccer” and other sports, the word “people,” and names of school subjects such as “chemistry,” along with some other...
Examples:I need a (Any pen) I need the pen on the table. (The specific pen on the table) He bought a (A car we don’t know about) He bought the car we looked at yesterday. (The specific car)Each noun in English has an article before it. The type of article depends on the ...
"Each vector encoded a protein withadifferent reporter molecule. The size oftheprotein was..." We also usethewhen talking about geographical features. Examples: "theTropic of Capricorn", "theEnglish channel", "theHimalayas" We also usethepreceding certain nouns when it is known that there is...
Now I gave you lots of different examples about how nouns can be unique and we also talked about how "the" should usually be used with ordinal numbers, when they're adjectives. The third rule explains why we sometimes leave articles out - that's when we're talking generally about ...
English has two indefinite articles, a and ana is used before nouns starting with a consonant or a semivowel an is used before nouns starting with a phonetic vowel Examples: a dog, a cat, an apple, an orange, an uncle, but a university (because the word university starts with phonetic...