can someone teach me when i should use an article and when i shouldn't?

Question

help

Answer 1

If you can take a word out of a sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence, then take the word out. If it changes the meaning, then leave the word in. For example:

"My sister doesn't know of the difference between articles and prepositions."

This sentence would be better as:

"My sister doesn't know the difference between articles and prepositions."

Deleting the word "of" does not change the meaning of the sentence and actually makes it easier to read. Here's an example with an article:

"The car manufacturers don't understand what consumers want."

Delete "The" and this sentence is better:

"Car manufacturers don't understand what consumers want."

Answer 2

The articles A/AN are used in singular. For example, a house, a car, etc. An is used when the noun (object, place or person), starts with a vowel. An umbrella, an orange, etc.

Plural nouns don't use articles.

Next, the article THE is used in both singular and plural but it is demonstrative. For example, the house the car, the chair, etc. It should not be used when your referring to general concepts such as love, hate, friendship, things like this. We don't say "The Love is Wonderful" We say "Love is wonderful".

Answer 3

Do you mean how can you tell if the article/site is a reliable source? There are a lot of resources that give tips on that.
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/checklist.html
is one of them.

Answer 4

your sentence uses an article correctly

Answer 5

Please give an example and I'll try to help you. I'm an English teacher.