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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 01:45 AM
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what is an article? I looked and found this gobbledygook
It's enough to make me want to take my clothes off and go running through the alley.

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnArticle.htm

Definition


An article is a member of a small class of determiners that identify a noun's


* definite or indefinite reference, and
* new or given status.

Examples (English)


* The definite article the
* The indefinite article a/an

Generic
An article is a kind of


* What is a determiner?

Sources


Crystal 1980 32


Hartmann and Stork 1972 18


Pei and Gaynor 1954 18


Mish 1991 105
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 01:47 AM
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1. The. A. An.
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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 01:51 AM
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2. Jeez
Edited on Tue Feb-12-08 01:51 AM by Donk Yore
they could have cleared up a lot of potential confusion with that!

:hi:

just ask anyone in the alley recently!
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