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Articles and Determiners

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Choose a, an, and the, and use other pointing or ownership words to make nouns specific for your reader.

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THE CURIOSI · EXPLORE & TRY

Explore the model, then test your understanding. Select each numbered stop to discover its role.

Sentence map: follow the labelled examples, then open each explanation below.

1A before a consonant sound

Uniform starts with a y-like consonant sound, so use a uniform.

2An before a vowel sound

The h in hour is silent; the first spoken sound is a vowel, so use an hour.

3The for an identifiable thing

Introduce a shell, then use the shell when referring to that same shell.

Say each example aloud. Explain which job each highlighted word or phrase does.

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1. Choose: ___ apple an a many

2. Choose: ___ uniform an these a

3. I found a coin. ___ coin was shiny. These The An

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