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Article (grammar)

In grammar, an article is any of a small set of words or affixes (such as a, an, and the in English) used with nouns to limit or give definiteness to the application. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech. These words represent a specific object, depending on the situation, but a is less specific than the.

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Types of article

Crosslinguistic variation

Historical development

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Article (grammar)

Nodes140
Edges139
Triples10
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014286
Components1

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Important terminology

article articles definite indefinite used english languages noun also nouns may demonstratives te example language form one use specific proper

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
genderinstance ofArticles in many other languages also carry additional grammatical information0.80text
numberinstance ofArticles in many other languages also carry additional grammatical information0.80text
and caseinstance ofArticles in many other languages also carry additional grammatical information0.80text
Englishinstance ofIndefinite articles are those0.80text
waterinstance ofused with a mass noun0.80text
to indicate a non-specific quantity of itinstance ofused with a mass noun0.80text
Basqueinstance ofand even language isolates0.80text
in dat Autoinstance ofColognian prepositions articles0.80text
or et Autoinstance ofColognian prepositions articles0.80text
the carinstance ofColognian prepositions articles0.80text

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