Question:
Does anyone have any good links to easy to understand resources about
articles, eg. a, an, the (), to help with teaching ESL
Answer:
I think, though, that at least a few sensible things can be said
about English articles (even if no one has managed to figure them
out completely).
For example:
Articles are often influenced by news value. A noun representing
new information is somewhat more likely to carry an indefinite
article -- whereas a noun representing something that has already
been brought up is a bit more likely to carry a definite article.
Articles are also influenced by whether a noun is "countable" or
not. This may not help ESL students much, though, since many of
them experience lots of trouble with the count/mass distinction.
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