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Observer Everyman What Does 'articles' Mean?

Gavmacp | 12:32 Sun 15th Mar 2015 | Crosswords

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So this is the clue...
10a. Three articles, mother's object of loathing (9). So answer is anathemas but have never really understood what articles are.

Everyman 3571 19 Down

Sunday Post Cryptic March 15Th 2015

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mac44

an a the ma's

mazie

A, An, The + ma's

Gavmacp

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I have the answer what I would like to understand is what articles mean

mac44

the articles are an, a, the.

Gavmacp

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So how I understand it connecting words?

DeliaK

'A' and 'an' are known in grammar as indefinite articles and 'the' is the definite article. Hope that explains it for you. I'm similarly thrown by cricketing terms!

jno

as DeliaK says, it's a grammatical term for those three words. Not every language has them.

Jackdaw33

Some languages, like Russian, do not have articles, either definite or indefinite so for example the word 'kniga' can mean book, a book or the book, depending on the context. This is one of the difficulties they have when learning English or other languages as it is an alien concept. Welsh has a definite article but not an indefinite one.

Gavmacp

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Because of childhood issues have not got the best grounding of the English language. I can be intelligent and very stupid at the same time. Doesn't bother me as such but I like to understand things clearer.

Jackdaw33

Latin also has no articles. Other languages have different forms of the article depending on the gender of the following noun and whether it is singular or plural. All very complicated!

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