Today we are going to talk about the articles A or An and Nouns

What is Noun?

•A place •A thing

•A person

a place

•       a museum

•       a cinema

a thing

•    a car

•    a book 

a person

•    a teacher

•    a doctor    

But! A person (in general), not names

•You can not use articles with names

•a girl – is correct

•a Nancy – is wrong (use: Nancy)

an animal

•    a dog

•    a cat     

What’s the difference between A and An?

A = An

the same meaning

We use A if the noun starts with a consonant:

B-C-D-F-G-H-J-K-L-M-N-P-Q-R-S-T-V-W-Y-Z

We use AN if the noun starts with a vowel:

A-E-I-O-U

Y – is a vowel only in some English words (but not in the beginning)

Remember!

We use the articles A or An only with the nouns in singular:

a book = 1 book a house = 1 house

And we don’t use these articles with nouns in plural:

books = 2 books houses = 3 houses

Let’s do some exercises!

What can you see?

Is it a place, a thing, an animal or  person?

What can you see?

Is it a place, a thing, an animal or  person?