A / AN / THE / ZERO ARTICLE

We use "THE" with:

• Villages, towns, cities

• Exclamations

• Already mentioned nouns (singular or plural)

• Unique things

• Mountains

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CCSS.L.1.1H

We use "THE" with:

• Jobs and interests

• Class of things

• Oceans

• Lakes

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CCSS.L.1.1H

We use "THE" with:

• Phrase "by the bus"

• Social groups

• Seas

• Streets, roads

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CCSS.L.1.1H

We use "THE" with:

• Island, Isles

• Deserts

• Continents, countries

• Uncountable, pluras nouns

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CCSS.L.1.1H

There are no articles in expressions:

• by accident

• in Tatra mountains

• in class

• from work

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CCSS.L.1.1H

We use "a" with:

• Singular countable nouns when the first letter is a consonant

• Singular uncountable nouns the first letter is a vowel

• Plural countable nouns when the first letter is a consonant

• Plural countable nouns when the first letter is a vowel

• When the noun was mentioned for the first time in the text

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CCSS.L.1.1H

We use "an" with:

• Singular countable nouns when the first letter is a consonant

• Singular countable nouns when the first letter is a vowel

• When the noun was mentioned for the second time in the text

• Singular uncountable nouns when the first letter is a vowel

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CCSS.L.1.1H

Which group matches "Zero article"

• jobs, interests, 100, 1000, exclamation

• Street, some illneses, lakes, continent, mountains

• superlatives, states, desert, social groups

• by train, by chance, on foot,

• to bed, out of prison, for dinner, at breakfast

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CCSS.L.1.1H

He is ....... very nice man.

• the

• a

• an

• -

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CCSS.L.1.1H

I'm having a few friends in to ......coffee tomorrow evening.

• a

• an

• the

• -

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CCSS.L.1.1H