'A' is placed before a noun that begins with a consonant and the 'u' sound.
For example:
- A lion
- A book
- A temple
- A university
- A European man
'An' is placed before a noun that begins with a vowel and before the silent 'h'.
- An ant
- An umbrella
- An apple
- An honest lady
- An hour
'The' is a definite article. We use it to refer to:
a. A specific thing / person.
- The dog that bit me ran away.
- Mom, you left the iron switched on.
b. Something already mentioned earlier.
- Yariz is a car produce by a company named Toyota. The car is well known to be small, good fuel consumption and convenient to drive around town.
c. A thing that is the only one its kind.
- The moon
- The Sun
d. When the noun is definite or certain, this means that the information is true or known.
- The winter of 1947 was one of the coldest in Britain.
- I looked it up on the Internet.
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