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What is an article?
Basically, articles are either definite or indefinite. They combine to a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.
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The indefinite article "an" is used before a vowel sound:
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1. Do not use an article with countries, states, counties or provinces, lakes and mountains except when the country is a collection of states such as "The United States".
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2. We do not normally use an article with plurals and uncountable nouns to talk about things in general:
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Using English articles with countable and uncountable nouns may be confusing.
"The" can be used with uncountable nouns, or the article can be dropped entirely as mentioned above.
1. "The two countries reached the peace after a long disastrous war" (some specific peace treaty) or "The two countries reached peace after a long disastrous war" (any
peace).
2. "He drank the water" (some specific water- for example: The water his wife brought him from the kitchen) or "He drank water." (any water)
It is unusual to use a/an for uncountable nouns. You can't say "I'd like
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