Articles and other noun markers
Articles (a, an, the) are part of a category of words known as noun markers or determiners. Standard English uses noun markers to help identify the nouns that follow. In addition to articles, noun markers include
- possessive nouns, such as Elena’s
- possessive pronoun/adjectives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their
- demonstrative pronoun/adjectives: this, that, these, those
- quantifiers: all, any, each, either, every, few, many, more, most, much, neither, several, some, and so on
- numbers: one, two, and so on
Articles and other noun markers always appear before nouns. Sometimes other modifiers, such as adjectives, come between a noun marker and a noun.
In most cases, do not use an article with another noun marker, such as this.
EXCEPTION:Some expressions consist of an article and another noun marker: a few, the most, all the.
Exercise: Articles and types of nouns
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