The phrase "articles play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the role or function of articles in language, grammar, or writing.
Example: "In English, articles play a crucial role in determining the specificity of nouns."
Alternatives: "articles serve" or "articles function".
Still other articles play on the vanity of doctors, many of whose names are attached to instruments and syndromes.
Although scholarly articles play an important role in the work life of academics, specific patterns of seeking and reading scholarly articles vary.
So these articles play to this fear by reassuring us that there are treatments that work, and that there are cures that are effective.
No doubt these coercive articles play a part in frequent, rapid, pragmatic plea deals -- rather than the exercising of Constitutional right to trial, before a likely tainted-in-advance jury.
Essentially bigger versions of Apple iPod Touch, high-resolution, color-touch-screen tablets would allow users to browse the Web, flip through photos, read books and articles, play games or watch video.
The series comprises Nataliia Logunova's writings: prose, poetry, articles, plays, movie scripts, and memoir.
The result is a kind of arms race, with articles playing the role of nukes and students paying the bill.
Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening.
There are send-ups of famous works of art, illustrations of scenes from Greek drama, news articles played straight and also twisted.
They have written articles, plays and poems about it, marched in the streets to protest it, voted for President Obama in the hope of ending it.
Some of the authors of the Wyeth hormone articles played significant roles in the work, while others made minor changes to drafts that were prepared for them, the documents show.
