'A' and 'The' Explained: A learner's guide to definite and indefinite articles

✍ Scribed by Seonaid Beckwith

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Series: Perfect English Grammar
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How to Use ‘A’ and ‘The’ is a reference and practice book for students of English who want to understand more about ‘a/an’, ‘the’ and ‘no article’. It provides a comprehensive collection of usage guidelines as well as clear and detailed explanations of a large number of exceptions and difficult cases. It is aimed at the upper-intermediate to advanced student, but will also benefit intermediate students, and is ideal for both self-study and classroom use.

• Nine units of explanations, including sections about the basic principles behind article use, generalising, proper nouns including geographical names, and idioms and fixed expressions. These are all illustrated with clear example sentences.
• Over a thousand practice questions to reinforce learning and to help students use articles more naturally, including a final unit of fifteen review exercises.
• Printable and photocopiable PDFs of all exercises available free at www.perfect-english-grammar.com/a-and-the.html.
• Three appendices which include explanations and exercises about countable and uncountable nouns and using ‘some’ and ‘any’.
• Answers to all exercises.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Known and Unknown
Section 3: Specific and General
Section 4: Using "The" to Talk about Abstract Ideas
Section 5: Using "A/An" to Talk about Members of Categories
Section 6: Words that Generally Have "No Article"
Section 7: Special Cases and Difficulties
Section 8: Idioms and Fixed Expressions
Section 9: Proper Nouns
Section 10: Review Exercises
Appendix 1: Pronunciation
Appendix 2: Classificaiton of Nouns
Appendix 3: Some/Any/"No Article"
Answers to Exercises
Answers to Appendices
Acknowledgements
About the Author