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Article An Article: An  article    is a  word    that is used with a  noun  to indicate the type of reference being made by th...

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An Article:

An article  is a word  that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. 

 An article is usually considered to be a type of adjective.

"The" "a" or "an" are the articles in the English language.

There are two types of the Articles

1-      The Definite Article                     2- The indefinite article

Its uses"the" is the definite article. Its used are explained blew.

The is used to point out or refer to a noun.

The student sitting there is my friend.

Where the oranges I had brought?

• "The" is placed before a single noun where it represents its complete class.

Example:
The hare runs fast.

The elephant is not as dangerous as the lion.

We like the mango. The potato is exported by us.

Note:

• We do not place the before man and woman where the represent the whole class.

Example:
Woman is Strong in the head and heart.

Man is not so happy today.

Note:

        It mean: all men and all women are not happy today. Man               represent the whole race.

When man and woman are used together, they refer to their sexes:

Don’t think man is wiser than women.

• The is placed before an adjective of quality like honest, poor, proud etc. to give it the meaning of a noun in the plural number.

Example:
  The honest succeed in the long run.

   It is the true, the hardworking and the faithful that take a country      to heights of glory.

   The late refers to someone who is dead.

   The late President was a man of parts. Who doesn't know his late    sister? The late Mr. Goldsmith …)

• “The” is placed before an adjective in the third degree. It is not placed before a third-degree adverb when it is used alone. But “the” is placed before an adverb followed by a connected word.

Example:
 The tallest building: The most useful person

She is the ablest teacher in our college.

• “The” cannot be used when an adjective in the superlative degree is preceded by a possessive pronoun.

Example:   
 Her greatest asset is knowledge, not beauty. He is our most beloved leader.

   Their worst fears proved true when they were attacked by robbers in the darkness.

• “The” is used as an adverb in sentences like these:

Example:   
 The easier the question, the quicker the reply

 The sooner you come, the better it will be.

 The greater the height, the cooler the air.

• “The” is placed before the names of newspapers, books, ships, rivers, etc

Example:     
 The Nation, The News, The Travels of Marco Polo, The poems of Pleasure.

But when a proper noun alone is the title, “the” will not be used:

   I have read “Ivanhoe” and “Tipu Sultan”

    
Qualities or abstract nouns as titles will generally not take “the”

 Pride and Prejudiced and Great Expectations

When “the” is implied in the title, “the” will not be used

 “Dawn” has the largest circulation in Karachi.

   “The Tipu Sultan” the Ravi, the Himalayas,

• “The” is placed before words indicating directions and before heavily bodies that are in common use and are familiar to us:

        the east, the north, the south-west

   But, a proper name of a heavenly body will not take the definite article:

          Saturn is much larger than Venus. Mars made its closest approach to the earth in 60000 years in August 2013.