Sentence examples for indefinite article from inspiring English sources

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indefinite article

noun

A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of the class of objects named by the noun.

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We also find markers of indefiniteness (indefinite article 'a') and modality ('would', 'could', 'possible'potentialial'potential

The use of the indefinite article is important.

* BIBLE with DD (theologian) and A (indefinite article) inside it.

Zunser: He's asking if you are a no one, it needs the indefinite article.

They looked more like the indefinite article as anticipation passed through misunderstanding into deep frustration.

(7) The numeral 'one' is used (in unstressed form) as an indefinite article (i.e., as a and an are used in English), except in Icelandic, which has no indefinite article.

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These cover definite articles, indefinite articles, subject pronouns, direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns and prepositional pronouns.

They have no articles as such; demonstrative adjectives ('this' and 'that,' for example) or possessive pronouns ('its') are used for the definite articles, and the numeral 'one(s)' for the indefinite articles.

In my opinion, the most experimental work has been created by companies that have been around for at least 10 years: Faulty Optic (now Invisible Thread), Green Ginger, Indefinite Articles, Improbable and Horse and Bamboo.

Its grammar is also similar to that of the other modern Romance languages, showing agreement of adjectives and nouns, the use of definite and indefinite articles, loss of noun declension for case, two genders (masculine and feminine), and an elaborate system of perfect and progressive tenses for the verb.

But there are genuine oohs and aahs elicited from the comically simple solution devised by designer Dick Bird and the puppet specialists Indefinite Articles, who knock up an ingenious array of special effects using little more than marker pens and overhead projectors.

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