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
Definite Article
-The
The, is used in English in front of a noun when we know exactly what we are referring to:
Example
| The dog | The dogs |
| The girl | The girls |
There are two ways to pronounce the article THE.
-Pronounce THE as “thee” if the next word starts with a vowel sound
Examples:
| The Hotel |
| The orange |
-Pronounce THE as “thuh” if the next word starts with a consonant sound
*Pronunciation Tips, just remember what it matters is the sound with which starts the first word, for this pronunciation rule.
So for example the word MRI when pronounced sounds as /ˌɛm ɑr ˈaɪ/, so starting with the sound E that is a vowel.
Just keep practising will be easier to memorize.
The Article must not be used when:
| Rule | Example | Sentence |
| We do not use the articles with names | England, America No The England | William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet |
| Uncountable nouns | Music, chocolate, meat | I love music, I buy some chocolate, I eat meat |
| In front of possessive adjectives and pronouns | My, mine, yours, Your | That’s my pen, This is mine |
| With acronyms(short form of a name), Titles | Nato, Unesco, Duchess, Doctor, Queen | Nato was formed in 1949, Mr Smith, Doctor Who |
| When you talk about things in general | Flowers, cats, | I love flowers, There are many cats, |
| When we have a language as adjective | Cinese, Russian, French, English | I teach people Chinese, I speak Russian, I study English |
| In front of Sports and games | Football, swimming, running | I play football, I love running, I hate swimming |
| Streets, some locations, and places do not need the article | Home, work, university, Portway road | I go at home, He studies business at university, She lives in Portway road |
| With the word Television | Television | They always watch television after work |
| Nouns + Numbers, | Platform 2 | The train leaves from platform 2 |
*Click on the word Zero Article to quickly access the topic, and have a list and a further
explanation of when we do not use the article.
The Article can be used when:
| Rule | Example | Sentence |
| We use the article when the countries include the terms: republic, kingdom or states | The United States, The Republic of Ireland, The United Kingdom | The Republic of China is a state in East Asia |
| Geography : The is not used before country, city, towns, single lakes or mountains | The Apls | John has seen the Apls(is a group of mountain), Lake Ontario is in North America, and is part of of the Great Lakes (Ontario is a single lake whilst Great Lakes are more than one) |
| With the name of a river | Thames | The Thames |
Click on the other Grammar English topics to check the other lessons.
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