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	Spanish Definite Article
		The definite article is similar to the Spanish adjectives in that you change it according to the gender and how many.
		For the most part, you will use the Spanish definite article whenever you use the word "the" in English.
		The Spanish language uses their definite article with abstract nouns, titles of people such as a CEO or a president.
	www.learnstudyspanish.com /lessons/grammar/articles/definite.html (457 words)

	Spanish Grammar: definite article part one
		The difference between the definite and indefinite articles is the difference between talking about a specific cookie, or any old cookie at all.
		In English, the definite article is the word "the" regardless of whether the noun it introduces is singular or plural.
		In Spanish, the definite article has 4 forms, depending on whether the noun is masculine, feminine, singular or plural.
	www.studyspanish.com /lessons/defart1.htm (347 words)

	definite article
		다가 한 definite article 집에 사는 것도 부족해 한 방에서 살을 맞대고 지내기를 원할 것이다.
		definite article야 알고 있으니 같이 한세상 더 놀아보자’는 심사일 까.
		definite article이다 지음과 동시에 최대한 열중 하고 있음을 나타내는 얼굴로 바라보았다.
	www.kwangjini.co.kr /kwangjini646566696E6974652061727469636C65 (249 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An article is usually a word that is next to a noun or any word that modifies a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.
		When homonyms have a different gender in these languages, the articles can differentiate them, as in Spanish, where (feminine) is "anger" and (masculine) is "cholera", or German, where (feminine) is "the tax" and (neuter) is "the steering-wheel", or Swedish, where (common) is "a plan" and (neuter) is "a plane".
		For example, French uses its definite article in cases where English uses no article, such as in general statements about a mass noun: ("Maize is a grain").
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=definite_article (1145 words)

	Definite article - Dictionary Definition and Meaning of Definite article
		Definite article (Gram.), the article the, which is used to designate a particular person or thing, or a particular class of persons or things; -- also called a definitive.
		Law of definite proportions (Chem.), the essential law of chemical combination that every definite compound always contains the same elements in the same proportions by weight; and, if two or more elements form more than one compound with each other, the relative proportions of each are fixed.
		That article that introduces a noun and specifies it as the particular noun that is being considered; in English, the only definite article is the.
	www.wordiq.com /define/Definite_article (238 words)

	Article (grammar) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An article is a word that is put next to a noun to indicate the type of reference being made to the noun.
		In the etymologies of many languages, definite articles formerly were demonstrative pronouns or adjectives; compare the fate of the Latin demonstrative ille in the Romance languages, becoming French le, la and les, Spanish el and la, and Italian il, lo and la.
		In Swedish, planen is "the plan", and planet is "the plane", and a double definite article is possible, in which a free-standing article (det, den, de) and the definite article suffix are used together (det vita planet "the white plane").
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/The (797 words)

	article.fac (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Articles are sometimes used before a noun and "typically have a grammatical function identifying the noun as a noun rather than describing it.
		The indefinite article "a" is used when you are introducing a single but unspecified person or thing and have no reason to believe the reader will know, apart from this noun, what you are talking about.
		The definite article "the" is used to indicate a specific person or thing with which the reader may be expected to be familiar.
	www.siue.edu /%7Espearso/ARTICLES.htm (522 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An article is a word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.
		A definite article (English the) is used before singular and plural nouns that refer to a particular member of a group.
		The article is omitted in prepositional phrases when referring to places which, when one goes to them, there's a change to an distinct set of social behaviours.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=The_ (1015 words)

	Spanish Definite Article - Artículo definido - e Learn Spanish Language
		article is sometimes confusing for beginning students, because it has to agree in gender and number with the noun it modifies, and it doesn't always correspond to an article in other languages.
		For me, it helps to remember that if you have a noun in Spanish, there is virtually always an article (either definite or indefinite) in front of it, unless you use a possessive (my, your, etc.) or a demonstrative (this, that) adjective.
		article changes when preceded by the preposition a or de: the preposition and article contract into a single word.
	www.elearnspanishlanguage.com /grammar/definitearticle.html (182 words)

	OWL at Purdue University: The Use and Non-Use of Articles
		English has two types of articles: definite (the) and indefinite (a, an.) The use of these articles depends mainly on whether you are referring to any member of a group, or to a specific member of a group:
		The definite article is used before singular and plural nouns when the noun is particular or specific.
		The signals that the noun is definite, that it refers to a particular member of a group.
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/esl/eslart.html (789 words)

	Lesson 4
		The thing that these two word orders have in common is the position of the adjective relative to the definite article.
		An ambiguity arises when there is no definite article at all, either before the noun or before the adjective.
		Pronouns by virtue of their reference to an antecedent are specific even without a definite article.
	www.ntgreek.net /lesson14.htm (1068 words)

	The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
		Living room is definite because it is clear from the context of the situation that the speaker is referring to the living room closest to where he and the listener are standing (reason 5 above).
		The lack of an article in front of it means that the speaker/writer is talking not about particular reports that are known to the listener/reader, but about all long reports in general.
		Memorize the definition of definiteness ("known to both the writer/speaker and the reader/listener").
	www.rpi.edu /web/writingcenter/esl.html (3569 words)

	Linguist List - Dissertation Abstracts
		Thus, indefinite articles are standardly analyzed as indicating that a referent exists, but is novel in the discourse, or not uniquely identifiable to the hearer; definite articles presuppose the existence of a referent, and also indicate that the speaker assumes that the referent is familiar, or uniquely identifiable to the hearer.
		In addition to their referential function, the articles possess an expressive function -- they may be used to convey the speaker's subjective attitude towards a referent, including such notions as prominence, (de)emphasis, viewpoint, etc., even in situations in which the referential 'rules' do not hold.
		It is shown that the analysis of 'the' as a marker of prominence correctly predicts the existence of constraints on the use of the articles that are unexpected under referential theories.
	www.linguistlist.org /pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=576 (369 words)

	ARTICLE -BUSINESS SPANISH TUTORIALS -
		The definite article is used also with nouns that refer to the totality, abstract sense, essence, or general idea.
		The definite article is used with the meals of the day and with the time.
		The definite article is NOT used with languages if they are followed immediately by the verb hablar and the prepositions de and en.
	www.businessspanish.com /LECCION/articles.htm (592 words)

	LanguageGuide: Arabic Grammar: Introduction: The Definite Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nouns preceded by the definite article are definite as well as the names of cities, countries, regions, and people.
		How to pronounce the definite article depends on the letter that comes after it.
		Whenever a definite article appears between it and a noun, هذا and هذه act as adjectives as opposed to pronouns.
	www.languageguide.org /arabic/grammar/articles.jsp (286 words)

	Definite and Indefinite Articles
		"Definite" means that "the" refers to some specific thing as contrasted with "a" or "an" which does not refer to one specific individual or individuals of a noun.
		In English, the indefinite articles are "a, an, some, any." They are "indefinite" because they do not refer to a particular thing as "the" does, but simply refer to an individual or individuals of the noun in a broad sense.
		Unlike the indefinite article which indicates an intact whole, such as "a car" or "an apple", the partitive is by definition a division of something.
	www.geocities.com /sohlhaut/articles.html (830 words)

	Urban Dictionary: teh
		A scatalogical derivation of the definite article "the", arising due to the over-used and over-rated nature of the "e" vowel.
		A secondary derivation of the definite article "the".
		A tertiary derivation of the definate article "the" as well as the secondary derivation of the definitive article "teh" as well as the primary derivation of the not-so-definitive article "teh".
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=teh&page=2 (478 words)

	COROLLARY THEOREMS - ENGLISH GRAMMAR: ARTICLE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Syntactically, adjectives are attributes; articles have no syntactic function of their own: they take the same syntactic function as their determined nouns, which means, articles are (part of) subjects, (noun) attributes, objects, or (noun origin) adverbials.
		For example, the definite article "the" is pronounced differently when it accompanies a noun starting with a consonant or a vowel, although the written form is exactly the same in either case.
		Indefinite article is used to mark its determined noun as being a typical/ordinary representative of its group/category/kind.
	www.corollarytheorems.com /Grammar/articles.htm (718 words)

	English Grammar Articles,Definite Article,Indefinite,Second Language Exercise,Lesson
		English has two types of articles: definite (the) and indefinite (a, an.) The use of these articles depends mainly on whether you are referring to any member of a group, or to a specific member of a group:
		The definite article is used before singular and plural nouns when the noun is particular or specific.
		The signals that the noun is definite, that it refers to a particular member of a group.
	www.learn4good.com /languages/evrd_grammar/articles.htm (762 words)

	The definite article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		That’s the definite article, and it’s so ubiquitous, and so useful, that we could easily think that something like that must be part of languages all over the world.
		Notice that the article is not a separate word but is merely ‘tacked on’ to the word it defines (in Arabic they don’t even write a hyphen).
		In other languages the usage is similar to English but the definite article is attached to the noun not at the beginning but at the end.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/definitart.htm (614 words)

	Greek Grammar: The Definite Article
		Articles must always agree with their subject in gender, number, and case.
		The definite article is generally used to indicate a specific thing or set of things (e.g.
		There is also an important reflexive use of the definite article, in which it is used in a reflexive sense to indicate someone or something that belongs to, has some relation to, or is a physical part of the subject (e.g.
	www.monachos.net /greek/8_definite_articles.shtml (145 words)

	Definite and indefinite articles
		In arguments, you can deliberately move between the definite and indefinite article to point out that something is unique when it is being treated as general or not unique when the definite article is being used by the other person.
		The word 'the' is the definite article, because it refers to a defined, single noun.
		The word 'a' is the indefinite article, because it refers to an instance of a noun.
	changingminds.org /techniques/language/speech_parts/definite_indefinite_article.htm (255 words)

	Definite Article Audio Book
		Definite Article was authored by Eddie Izzard and is narrated by N/A.
		Definite Article is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
		Get Definite Article audio book today and start improving your life by gaining knowledge and realize the joy that comes from treating yourself with the respect you deserve.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/definite-article.php (396 words)

	Online gallery of original affordable works of contemporary art from emerging artists
		This website is run by the definite Article (also referred to within these Terms and Conditions as “we”, “us” and “our”).
		The Client is someone (person or company) who enters into a transaction with the definite Article.
		A Transaction is a financial arrangement undertaken between the definite Article and the Client.
	www.thedefinitearticle.co.uk /terms.php (499 words)

	Rishon Rishon: The Definite Article in Central Semitic Languages
		Since they have identical, and somewhat unusual behavior (they are applied to both nouns and their adjectives, but to only the last noun in a compound), my guess would be that the Proto-Central Semitic article agreed in gender and number with its noun (as adjectives do).
		The Arabic, Canaanite and Modern South Arabian definite article has a common origin and goes back to an original demonstrative pronoun which was a compound inflected for gender, number and probably also for case.
		In Aramaic the suffixed definite article was due not to simple suffixation of ha but to a resegmentation of the postposed compound demonstrative ha-ze-[n(a)] and suffixation of enclitic ha > -a which has been generalized.
	www.rishon-rishon.com /archives/131796.php (456 words)

	Lesson 3. Simple Sentences
		In English, we have two kinds of article: a definite article ("the") and an indefinite article ("a", "an").
		The Welsh language thus proves the indefinite article to be superfluous by omitting it.
		The "y"s in the definite article go against the normal pronunciation of "y" in monosyllabic words, and are obscure.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /fun/welsh/Lesson03_main.html (519 words)

	Articles
		When both the speaker (writer) and listener (reader) know what is being talked about (even if it has not been mentioned before), use a definite article.
		When the noun is regarded as unique, use a definite article.
		When the noun is specifically modified by a clause or a phrase, use an indefinite article.
	www.nau.edu /english/pie/learning/article/def.htm (184 words)

	Carleton College: French and Francophone Studies: Articles, definite
		The definite articles are le (masculine singular), la (feminine singular), and les (masculine and feminine plural).
		The definite article is used to refer to specific objects, people, and events which have been defined by the speaker or the context:
		The definite article is used before days of the week only to indicate a recurring or habitual action:
	apps.carleton.edu /curricular/fren/Language_tools/grammar/articles_definite (246 words)

	The God or a god? (This Rock: October 1991)
		If it can be shown that theos is a definite noun, even though the definite article is absent, then the JW case for their translation of John 1:1 falters.
		The definite article argument runs as follows: The mere absence of the definite article in front of a noun doesn’t prove the noun is indefinite.
		The lack of a definite article in the Greek can imply an indefinite article is needed in an English translation, but it doesn’t have to.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1991/9110chap.asp (1234 words)

	Language Translation Article: French Definite Article in Context
		Articles can be definite (showing a reference to a specific person or thing) or indefinite (showing reference to any one person, place or thing out of a general group).
		The definite article in English is made up of one word – ‘the’ – but in French, this is complicated by the fact that the definite article must change form to agree with the gender and number of the noun to which it refers:
		The use of too few definite articles in French or too many in English can often betray a lack of fluency in either language.
	www.english-to-french-translation.com /translation-articles/english/translation-article-french-definite-article-in-context.htm (324 words)

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