The indefinite article

yeah.... i'm interested in english lessons, so i'll make short explainations about it. For the first i'll give you about articles.

1.  The idenfinite article is a or an.
    The form a is used before a word beginning with a consonant, or a vowel sounded like a consonant :
    a man        a table      a university        
    The form an is used before words beginning with a vowel (a,i,u,e,o) or words beggining with a mute h :
    an apple    an honourable     an hour
    Few and little
    a few = a small number, or what the speaker consider a small number
    a little = a small amount, or what the speker considers a small amount.
    few and little can also be used without artticle but then have an almost negative meaning, and can usually be replaced by hardly any :
   we had little time for amusement implies that we were always busy.
   Few people know this (it is almost unknown)
  a can be placed before Mr/Mrs/Miss + surename
  a Mr Potter         a Mrs Potter
  a Mr potter means a man called Potter and implies that he is a stranger to the speaker. Mr Potter, withot a, implies that the speaker knows Mr Potter or knows of his existence.

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