English Grammar:
Articles
-Definite Article
-Indefinite Article
-Zero Article
Adjectives
–Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and pronouns
-Demonstrative Adjectives
–Some and Any, No
-How to use adjectives in a sentence
-Comparative and superlative adjectives
-The order of adjectives
Adverbs
-Example of adverbs
– Much and Many
-Adverbs of quantity:, a lot, Very, Few
-Too much, too many, too few, too little
Prepositions
-Preposition of place
-Between and Among
-Preposition of time
-Prepositions after verbs and nouns
Pronouns
-Interrogative Pronouns
-Personal Pronouns
-Possessive Pronouns
-Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
-Relative pronouns
Saxon Genitive
-Saxon Genitive
Nouns
-Plural of nouns
-Countable – Uncountable Nouns
Basic Question Forms
-Questions
– The 5 W : Who, When, Why, What and Where
Conjunctions
-If, If and whether clause
False Friends
-Similar words in other languages with different meaning in English
Verbs
-English Verbs
-Regular Verbs and Irregular Verbs
-To Be
-To Have
-Simple Present
-Present continuous
-To like, To Dislike
-Can and Cannot
– Verbs ending in -ing
-Infinitive
-There is and There are
-Present continuous
-Simple Past
-Used + Infinitive
-Present Perfect
-Present Perfect Continuous
-Past Perfect
-Past Perfect Continuous
-Future
-Future continuous
-Future Perfect (continuous)
-Will and Be going to
-Imperative
-Conditional
-The future seen from the past
-Modal Verbs
-Can, Could
-Be able to, allowed to
-May and Might : possibility
-Must and Have (got) to
-Need (not), don’t need to, don’t have to
-Should, ought to and had better
-Dare
-Forming Passive sentences
-Phrasal Verbs
-To like
-To do and to make
-Question Tags
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Indefinite Article
A/AN
Indefinite Articles in English are A and An.
A/AN are invariables, you can use A if the first letter of the word is a consonant or before words starting with u and eu when they sound like Y.
For pronunciation reasons you can use AN when the next word starts with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u) or with a mute H, or with a word that has a vowel sound.
Examples with A:
| A boy | A university |
| A car | An honour |
| A european | A helicopter* |
*A helicopter, h in this case is not mute, is pronounced that’s the reason why we use A.
Examples with AN:
| An elephant | An orange |
| An honour | An animal |
| An hour | An apple |
*N.B.
The H at the beginning of a word, is not always pronounced in English.
- H is pronounced in words like: House, Helicopter, Hot
- H is not pronounced, is silent in words like : honest, hour, heir, honour
Exercise:
Take a little test, put A or AN in the sentence below .
- ________ honest person
- ________ beautiful car
- ________ horse
- ________ giant
- ________ super hero
- ________ apple
- ________university
- ________ Australian university
- ________dog
- ________ animal
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