{"id":71757,"date":"2019-08-24T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T09:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71757"},"modified":"2019-08-24T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T09:10:06","slug":"articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A, an and the<\/strong> are called the articles. A\/an is called the indefinite article; the is called the definite article.<\/p>\n<p>We use the before a noun when our listener\/reader knows (or can work out) which particular person(s) or thing(s) we are talking about. In other cases, we use a\/an, some\/any or no article.<\/p>\n<p>I have been to the doctor. (You know which one: my doctor.)<br \/>\nA doctor must like people. (= any doctor)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indefinite article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conventional name for the English determiner a or an. We can use a\/an to talk about one particular person or thing, when the listener does not which one is meant, or when it does not matter which one.<\/p>\n<p>John is going out with a German girl.<br \/>\nCould you give me a pen?<br \/>\nThey have a big house in the city.<\/p>\n<p>We can also use a\/an to talk about any one member of a class.<\/p>\n<p>A spider has eight legs.<br \/>\nA doctor must like people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A, an and the are called the articles. A\/an is called the indefinite article; the is called the definite article. We use the before a noun when our listener\/reader knows (or can work out)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[846,847],"class_list":["post-71757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-articles","tag-indefinite-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71758,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71757\/revisions\/71758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}