indefinite article

How To Use indefinite article In A Sentence

• Nouns derived from a place name in German, used in this kind of sentence, don't normally take the indefinite article ein.
• On this account, it is the polysemy of the indefinite article that gives rise to the ambiguity of the indefinite noun phrase.
• After having worked out a hard core system of rules for analysing numerals, definite articles, and indefinite articles, we give a thorough study of the French singular definite article le.
• In Swedish, the indefinite article is a free morpheme, whereas the definite article is a suffix to the noun.
• And very often an indefinite article possibly with some er a noun phrase with some modifier.
• All of these examples involve head nouns with an indefinite article.
• In the previous post on articles – A is for articles (1) – I focused mainly on the indefinite article and attempted to correct the common misconception that the referents of a/an are both indefinite and non-specific. A is for Articles (2) « An A-Z of ELT
• The historical lore was that JFK, in his first faltering words of German, was wrong to use the indefinite article.
• An article is placed before a substantive to limit or determine its meaning; the articles are _a_, _an_, and _the_; _a_ or _an_ is called the _indefinite article_, because it does not point out any particular object: _the_ is called the _definite article_ because it determines what particular object is meant. A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.
• As discussed in previous posts, the usual pattern in English is for the indefinite article, when unstressed and preceding a word starting with a consonant, to be pronounced as a short reduced mid-central vowel.