Articles for Class 6
Get A to Z Rules and Examples on Articles for Class 6 Students. Here in this page we provided all rules regarding Articles Exercise for Standard 6 school students. Hope this article will help you to understand Articles for Class 6.
Articles for Class 6 English Grammar:
* The words ‘A’ ‘An’, are called Articles.
They are used before Noun.
* ‘A’, ‘an’ are called indefinite articles because it does not point out a particular thing, or a person spoken about.
For eg – An apple
A boy
A girl
* ‘The’ is regarded as a ‘definite’ article as it points out to a particular thing or person.
For eg – He went to the school.
The sun rises in the east.
** There are certain rules for the usage of the articles.
* The indefinite article i.e. ‘a’, ‘an’ are used with singular, countable nouns.
For eg – A boy, a book, a box.
* The definite article i.e. ‘the’ is used with singular countable, plural countable & uncountable nouns.
For eg – The boys, the books, the milk.
* Usage of ‘A’, ‘An’
** A, an usage is determined by sound.
A word that begins with a vowel sound ‘an’ is used.
For eg – An apple, an ink-bottle, an hour (because ‘h’ is silent & it is pronounced as our), an egg
* In some words such as ‘honest’
* In some words such as ‘honest’, ‘hour’, ‘heir’ the alphabet ‘h’ is silent & hence it begins with a vowel sound. In such cases ‘an’ is used.
* In words beginning with consonant sound ‘a’ is used.
For eg – a boy, a doctor, a box
* In some words such as ‘university union, ‘a’ is used because the letter ‘u’ is pronounced as ‘yu’.
* Similarly words such as ‘one rupee coin’, ‘one’, one-eyed dog’ etc, ‘a’ is used because the word is pronounced as ‘wa’.
Usage of ‘the’
* The is used when we talk about a particular person, or thing.
Eg – * The book you want is there.
The sun rises is the east.
* When a singular noun is referring to an entire class.
For eg – The mango is the king of the fruits.
The dog is an obedient animal
* ‘The’ is used before proper names such as,
For eg – The sun, the Ganga, the Himalaya
* With superlative, ‘the’ is used.
For eg – ‘The greatest king, the brightest hour’
Some examples of Articles
(i) Silver is a useful metal
(2) He is not an honest man
(3) The lion is the national animal
(4) Bengali is a sweet language
(5) Sri Lanka is an is land