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/ɪndˈɛfənət ˈɑrtəkəl/ Listen

Indefinite article

noun

A determiner (as 'a' or 'some' in English) that indicates nonspecific reference.

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"Indefinite article" Quotes from Famous Books

... clerk-schoolmaster was obliged to relinquish his scholastic duties and make way for a certified teacher. One day he heard the new master tell his pupils: "'A' is an indefinite article. 'A' is one, and can only be applied to one thing. You cannot say a cats or a dogs; but only a cat, a dog." The clerk at once reported the matter to his rector. "Here's a pretty fellow you've got to keep school! He says that you can only apply the ...

— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield

... consequently incapable of any form of grammatical agreement or disagreement—a circumstance of which many of our grammarians seem to be ignorant; since they prescribe a rule, wherein they say, it "agrees," "may agree," or "must agree," with its noun. Nor has the indefinite article any variation of form, except the change from an to a, which has been made for the sake of ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... what a. For the omission of the indefinite article, common in Shakespeare, see Abbott, Sect. 86. In the Folios the interrogation mark and the exclamation mark ...

— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare

Words linked to "Indefinite article" : article