Development of english language

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Whenever word frequencies are reported for English, the articles account for almost ten per cent of most texts. It would seem to be hard to make sense of how English works without understanding the role of these common forms. There is distinction between the indefinite article (a or an) and the definite article (the). There is also a high percentage of nouns occurring without any article, or with what is called zero article ( ).
For easier understanding it was “invented” An Article Machine, in which you can insert any noun and, by making a number of choices, create a noun phrase containing the correct article. It looked like this:

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Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 2
The Definite Article ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
The Omission of the Definite Article ……………………………………………………………………………...5
The Indefinite Article ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8
The omission of the Indefinite Article …………………………………………………………………………… 9
References …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11

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Omission of the Indefinite Article

 

The indefinite article is ommisioned in these cases:

  1. Before abstract nouns used in a general sense:
    • We were very fond of music.
    • Life is grand.

 

  1. Before material nouns used in general sense:
    • I buy bread at the baker’s.
    • Do you take sugar in your tea?

 

  1. Before the names of languages:
    • Do you speak Franch?
    • Can you translate this into Serbian?

But if we put the word language after the name of a language, it is used the definite article: (the English language, the French language, the Serbian language, etc.)

 

  1. It can’t be used in following expression: at home, to go home, by name, on foot, by bus, by train, to go to bed, to be in trouble, to be in high spirits, in pencil, in ink, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References:

  1. Popović Ljubica, Vera Miric, Gramatika engleskog jezika sa vežbanjima, Beograd, Zavet 2002.
  2. Yule, George, Explaining English Grammar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003
  3. Internet data: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/1/

1 Yule, George Explaining English Grammar, Oxford University Press, 1998., Oxford, page 27

2 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/1/

3 Yule, George Explaining English Grammar, Oxford University Press, 1998., Oxford, page 33.

4 Yule, George Explaining English Grammar, Oxford University Press, 1998., Oxford, page 35.

 


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