Tham khảo tài liệu 'english grammar drills part 6', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 3 Articles Articles are by far the most common and the most complex type of pre-adjective noun modifier. They also account for the great majority of nonnative speaker errors in noun modification. There are two types of articles the definite article the and the indefinite articles a an and some. Definite articles The definite article the is normally unstressed. It is pronounced So rhymes with duh before words beginning with a consonant sound. For example the So team the So bridge the So song The is pronounced Siy rhymes with see before words beginning with a vowel sound. For example the Siy accident the Siy example the Siy orange Note If the before a consonant sound is given extra emphasis it also is pronounced Siy instead of the expected So . For example in the following sentence The New York Yankees are not just any baseball team they are the Siy baseball team. In all of our discussion about the pronunciation of the we assume unless stated otherwise that we are talking about the normal unstressed pronunciation of the. 27 28 Noun Phrases Exercise Place an X in the appropriate column to show the correct pronunciation of unstressed the with the following nouns. Noun da diy the answer X 1. the test 2. the road 3. the action 4. the building 5. the organization 6. the umbrella 7. the desk 8. the name 9. the insurance 10. the eraser From now on unless it is relevant to the discussion we will not make a distinction between writing and speaking. For the sake of simplicity we will use the term speaker to mean both speaker and writer likewise the terms listener and hearer will mean both listener and reader. The definite article is used with both singular and plural nouns. For example Singular noun Plural noun the cause the causes the design the designs the hill the hills the store the stores Because the definite article has only a single form the and the can be used with both singular and plural common nouns it would seem that the definite article is simple to use. .
