«A», «an» and «the»: learn to use articles

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The English language has no gender for articles or adjectives, but there are still ways to make mistakes. Therefore, in this post you will learn how to use each of them correctly.

As in Spanish, the main difference is whether we know the object we are talking about.



«The» vs. «A»
We use “The” when we know without a doubt what specific object we saudi arabia phone number list referring to. For example, we say “The queen of England” because, since there is only one, we cannot possibly refer to another. We also say “In the previous sentence” because, although there are several sentences, only one meets the condition of the sentence (being right before in the text).

To give another example, fans of the musician Bruce Springsteen call him "The Boss", implying that for them there is a big difference between him and other musicians, so there is no possible confusion.

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In the opposite case, we use “a” to express any member of the group. Thus, we could say “She walked into the room looking like a queen”, indicating that she had a regal presence, but without specifically comparing her to any queen in particular. Or we can say “A sentence is a group of words put together to mean something” to define that a sentence is made up of words and must have meaning. In this way we are not referring to a specific sentence but to any one, and thus, to all of them. This use is common in definitions, referring to any example to express a quality of the whole group.