English Grammar:

 Articles 
-Definite Article
-Indefinite Article
-Zero Article
Adjectives
–Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and pronouns
-Demonstrative Adjectives
–Some and Any, No
-How to use adjectives in a sentence
-Comparative and superlative adjectives
-The order of adjectives
Adverbs
-Example of adverbs
– Much and Many
-Adverbs of quantity:, a lot, Very, Few
-Too much, too many, too few, too little
Prepositions
-Preposition of place
-Between  and Among
-Preposition of time
-Prepositions after verbs and nouns
Pronouns
-Interrogative Pronouns
-Personal Pronouns
-Possessive Pronouns
-Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
-Relative pronouns
Saxon Genitive
-Saxon Genitive
Nouns
-Plural of nouns
-Countable – Uncountable Nouns
Basic Question Forms
-Questions
– The 5 W : Who, When, Why, What and Where

Conjunctions
-If, If and whether clause
False Friends
-Similar words in other languages with different meaning in English
Verbs
-English Verbs
-Regular Verbs and Irregular Verbs
-To Be
-To Have
-Simple Present
-Present continuous
-To like, To Dislike
-Can and Cannot
– Verbs ending in -ing
-Infinitive
-There is and There are
-Present continuous
-Simple Past
-Used + Infinitive
-Present Perfect
-Present Perfect Continuous
-Past Perfect
-Past Perfect Continuous
-Future
-Future continuous
-Future Perfect (continuous)
-Will and Be going to
-Imperative
-Conditional
-The future seen from the past
-Modal Verbs
-Can, Could
-Be able to, allowed to
-May and Might : possibility
-Must and Have (got) to
-Need (not), don’t need to, don’t have to
-Should, ought to and had better
-Dare
-Forming Passive sentences
-Phrasal Verbs
-To like
-To do and to make
-Question Tags

 

 

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                                    Indefinite Article

A/AN

Indefinite Articles in English are A and An.

A/AN are invariables, you can use A if the first letter of the word is a consonant or before words starting with u and eu when they sound like Y.

For pronunciation reasons you can use AN when the next word starts with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u) or with a mute H, or with a word that has a vowel sound.

Examples with A:

A boy A university
A car An honour
A european A helicopter*

 

 

 

*A helicopter, h  in this case is not mute, is pronounced that’s the reason why we use A.

Examples with AN:

An elephant An orange
An honour An animal
An hour An apple

 

 

 

*N.B.

The H at the beginning of a word, is not always pronounced in English.

  • H is pronounced in words like: House, Helicopter, Hot
  • H is not pronounced, is silent in words like : honest, hour, heir, honour

 Exercise:

Take a little test, put A or AN in the sentence below .

  1. ________ honest person
  2. ________ beautiful car
  3. ________ horse
  4. ________ giant
  5. ________ super hero
  6. ________ apple
  7. ________university
  8. ________ Australian university
  9. ________dog
  10. ________ animal

 

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