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An is used before words that begin with a vowel sound.

Read the following examples: An awesome movie, an intelligent man, an apple, etc.

Rules for using the Indefinite Articles and a an .

G To refer to any single (not particular) object or person.

G To compare, to express a certain quantity, indicate a class or species, a member of a
group, quality and size with emphasis.

G Before nouns, to exclaim.
G Before individual letters.

G In case of some phrases.

G To refer to something for the first time.
G To indicate a regular occurrence of something.

Rules for using the Definite Article the .
G Before only some proper nouns such as names of rivers, mountains, seas, oceans,
deserts, famous books, certain countries and geographical features.

G Along with ordinal numbers.

G With some word combinations.
G Before superlative degree of adjectives, some uncountable nouns and the names of
musical instruments.

G When the singular noun represents a class.

G Before adjectives that are used as noun (subjects).

G To indicate the people of a country or continent or particular person/persons,
place/places.

G Before adverbs when we have to show comparison.
G Before abstract nouns that work as a feature or attribute.

G Before a definite noun that has already been mentioned.

Position of the Articles

G Before an adjective in case a noun is qualified by an adjective; as, a black jacket, a
young man, a red umbrella, a wild animal, an ominous bird, a dense forest.

Here a and an are determined by sound of adjectives and not the sound of nouns.
G An article comes before a noun; as,

a girl, a tree, an owl, an umbrella, the cattle, the lion, the Taj, etc.

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