{"id":72133,"date":"2019-09-15T10:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72133"},"modified":"2019-09-15T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:32:30","slug":"rules-for-the-use-and-omission-of-articles-class-10-english-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/rules-for-the-use-and-omission-of-articles-class-10-english-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules For The Use And Omission Of Articles | Class 10 English Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">The misuse of <b>the <\/b>and <b>a <\/b>is very common. Here are the basic rules for the use and omission of <b>articles<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Proper nouns <\/b>(e.g. John, Alice and India) do not take articles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect: The John is my friend.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: John is my friend.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: The Tokyo is a big city.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: Tokyo is a big city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <b>singular common noun<\/b> (e.g. boy, cat, tree, book, apple etc.) must have an article.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect: There is cat on roof.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: There is a cat on the roof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <b>plural common noun<\/b> cannot be used with the article <b>a.<\/b> It is usually used with no article, though <b>some<\/b> is sometimes used before it.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A spider<\/b> has eight legs.<\/li>\n<li><b>Spiders<\/b> have eight legs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember that a noun can be <b>common<\/b> in one sentence and <b>proper<\/b> in another sentence.<\/p>\n<p>A <b>superlative adjective <\/b>is usually used with <b>the<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect: He is best player in the team.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: He is <b>the best player<\/b> in the team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The misuse of the and a is very common. Here are the basic rules for the use and omission of articles. Proper nouns (e.g. John, Alice and India) do not take articles. Incorrect: The&#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":[846,1278,1279],"class_list":["post-72133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-articles","tag-omission-of-articles","tag-when-to-use-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72133","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=72133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72134,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72133\/revisions\/72134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}