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Use of “A”
1. Every singular noun which starts with consonants , starts with “a”
2. Every singular noun which starts with “E” or “U” starts with “a”.
E.g. a university, a European, a uniform, a utensil
3. Every singular noun which starts with “O” but sounds like “v”
E.g. a one rupee note, a one eyed man, a one way ticket.
Use of “An”
1. Every singular noun that starts with a vowel and sounds like (a, e, i, o, u)
E.g. an apple, an egg, an eye, an ear, an inkpot, an orange, an elephant, an army, and
idiot, an American.
2. That singular noun that starts with a consonant but sounds like “a”, ”o”, ”e”.
E.g. an MP, an MLA, an S.H.O( s sound like a in starting), an M.A , an hour, an honest
man, an heir, an hotel ( Because they all sounds like “o” in starting) Note: only
countable singular noun take “a” or “an” with them.
Uses of “The”
E.g. the sun, the moon, the earth, the starts etc.
E.g. the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
3. Before the name of ships, trains, seas, oceans, canals, lakes,
mountains,
islands, dams, deserts.
E.g. The frontier mail, the Arabian sea, the Indian ocean, the panama
canal, the dal lake, the Himalayas, the Andaman, the bhakra dam, the
sahara desert.
8. Before the name of political parties,E.g. the congress, the Janata dal.
E.g. the Taj Mahal, the golden temple, the zoo, the library
E.g. the battle of Plassey, the battle of Panipat, the mutiny of 1857
19. After” all “or “both” , but before” whole” or” same”
E.g. All the boys are making noise, both the girls are pretty, the whole
class is absent, their ages are the same.
20. Before the common noun which have been described in the paragraph
before.