Articles are divided into fixed crown, indefinite crown and zero crown.

The indefinite articles a and an, the meaning table of "-"generally refers to,

Use, order, orientation, superlative,

There is only one object in the world, and people or things are mentioned again.

The following articles are free, and there are three meals in the title game.

The noun plural list generally refers to the period before the season, week and month,

Second, the usage of definite articles is cleverly remembered.

Specifically, revisiting and unique, islands, straits and bays, oceans, parties, superlatives,

Deserts, rivers and mountains, orientation order and musical instruments, years, groups and institutions,

Name of ship, building and organization, conference treaty and newspaper, plural surname, full name of country, remember to use crown.

Third, the usage formula of the zero article

Chinese rose flower week is a festival. Before calling for titles and responsibilities,

Three-meal ball idiom, before the subject chess noun.

The indefinite article means general reference and general reference, the definite article means specific reference, specific reference and general reference, and the zero article means general reference to people or things. A and an are only used in singular countable nouns, indicating the meaning of "one", without emphasizing the concept of number, only indicating that the noun is unspecified.

The definite article "The" indicating specific nouns means this, that, these and those, and can be used before countable nouns, singular nouns, plural nouns and uncountable nouns. (/) indicates other nominalized words or proper nouns, so both singular and plural numbers are acceptable. Plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns do not use articles before, which also means general reference. Some grammarians call it "zero article"

Extended data:

Where things are used.

1, indefinite article position

Indefinite articles usually precede nouns or noun modifiers. note:

(1) appears after the following adjectives: so, what, many, half,

I have never seen such an animal.

(2) When the adjective before the noun is modified by adverbs as, so, too, how, however, when sufficient, the indefinite article should be placed after the adjective:

This is the most enjoyable day I have ever spent.

Such a short time.

(2) quit, rather is used with singular nouns, followed by articles.

But there are adjectives before rather and quite, and the indefinite article can be placed before and after it. For example, quite a lot

(4) In the adverbial clause guided by as, when the predicative is a noun modified by an adjective, the indefinite article is followed by an adjective:

Brave as he is, he trembles at the sight of snakes. Brave as he is, he shivers at the sight of a snake.

When nouns are modified by comparative adjectives, indefinite articles are usually placed after comparative adjectives.

Step 2 locate the article

The definite article usually comes before a noun or noun modifier, but it comes before both, double, half, two, three times and nouns after all.

All the students in the class went out. All the students in the class went out.

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