Article Usage Simplified

Cactus Communications, 2013 - 22 pages. After reading this lesson, learners will: - recognize an article in a sentence. - distinguish between an indefinite article and a definite article. - know where to place an article within a sentence. "A," "an," and "the" are some of the shortest words in the English language, but they are, perhaps, the most challenging for a second language learner of English. Articles, as the three little words are called, have always baffled second language learners. This is because when learning a new language, the major problem we face is understanding concepts that we are not familiar with in our own language. Russian, Japanese, Polish, Hindi are languages that have no articles. In such languages, sentences like "Give me a book" and "Give me the book" would translate to the same sentence.