Class 2 English Grammar Chapter 8 Articles

We have already learnt that there are five vowels and twenty-one consonants. Here we will learn how we treat the words starting with vowels or consonants. Normally ‘a’ is used before a word starting with a consonant or consonant sound and ‘an’ is used before a word starting with a vowel or sound of vowel.

There are practice examples and exercises to learn how to implements articles in a sentence. The perfect use of Articles in sentences or paragraphs not only improve the quality of contents but it makes the content more simplified.

‘A’ means one. ‘A’ is used before a word starting with a consonant sound.
examples:
a cat, a ball, a cup, a peacock, a book, a hen, a dog, a tree, a bus

‘An’ also means one. ‘an’ is used before a word starting with a vowel or sound of vowel.
examples:
an aeroplane, an umbrella, an orange, an egg, an elephant, an engine

‘The’ is used before a specific person, thing, name of rivers, seas, mountains, names of newspapers, magazines etc.
examples:
The India Gate, The Mahabharata, The Red Fort, The sun, The earth, The Himalayas

1. I eat _____ apple every day.
2. There is _____ man and _____ woman in the park.
3. _____ insect is there in the kitchen.
4. The farmer has bought _____ ox and ____ cow.
5. ______ old man is trying to cross the road.
6. Mr Sharma is _____ honest man.
7. This is ____ easy exercise.
8. We are going to London by _____ aeroplane.

Answers:

• 1. an
• 2. a, a
• 3. an
• 4. an, a
• 5. an
• 6. an
• 7. an
• 8. an

1. ________ cow
2. ________ earth
3. ________ sun
4. ________ moon
5. ________ boy
6. ________ apple

Answers:
1. a
2. the
3. the
4. the
5. a
6. an