Sunday, August 31, 2014

                   Using articles with types of noun is necessary because there are a lot of sentences contains different noun and we should know when we must put articles and when we must not add articles. When uncounted noun refers to a concept it is not marked with an article. With uncounted noun refers to an abstract concept, it is not marked with an article an, but it can be marked with a quantifier like some. With Singular proper nouns we do not need to add an article.  The article the is used to mark the regions or specific place.


                  I know that when we talk about specific things in the first time use a and in the other sentence which is talk about same things we use the, but it is not in this easy. We should determine the noun and look at the sentence to know the type of this noun and decide if it is necessary to use the articles or not. It will be different when we have adjectives, I am not sure if we must but a before the adjectives or not. Using a or an with single noun is easy but there are some nouns we don’t have to use the article with!   


                 The mine problem I have in grammar is using articles, and I think this is not just my problem because there are many students have this problem specially Saudis students. The reason is we in Arabic language use the articles in different way not like how to use it in the English language. I should learn more about articles because it is very important in speaking and writing. In this week I did two exercises about articles, and my score is unsatisfactory. I am confused in using a and the and the situation that it doesn’t need to use articles.

               With a singular count noun, we should be marked with the indefinite article. With General categories we don’t have to add the articles, but as I wrote before the article the is used only with nouns that the reader can identify specifically. Articles affect in sentences meaning and it is very useful because some of the important international test contain question about it. In the Michigan test and Toefl test the questions maser the ability and the skills in grammar. Finally,  I really need to do a lot of executrices in this part of grammar.