Articolul

Cuprins
Lectia 1
  Lectia 2
Lectia 3
Lectia 4
Lectia 5
Definitie: - reprezinta un determinant substantival care Lectia 6
contribuie la realizarea intelesului unui substantiv intr-o Lectia 7
propozitie. Lectia 8
Lectia 9
Tipuri de articole: Lectia 10
Articolul Hotarat - THE Lectia 11
Articolul Nehotarat - A / AN Lectia 12
Articolul zero (forma implicita sau neexprimata) Lectia 13
  Lectia 14  
Lectia 15
Articolul hotarat THE: Lectia 16
Lectia 17
Cand folosim articolul hotarat?
  Lectia 18
Lectia 19
- Inaintea unui substantiv care a mai fost mentionat in textul
Lectia 20
respectiv:
Lectia 21
Exemplu: A man knocked at the door and a girl opened it.
Lectia 22
The man was her father.
Lectia 23
Lectia 24
- Inaintea substantivelor care sunt unice:
Lectia 25
Exemplu: the moon, the earth, the star, the sun, the air
Lectia 26
Lectia 27
- Inaintea numeralelor ordinale:
Exemplu: the first, the second, the third, the twenty-first, the
seventeenth

- In realizarea superlativului:
Exemplu: the best year, the youngest girl, the most
important, the fastest, the tallest

- Inaintea substantivelor care reprezinta nume de colectivitati si institutii:

Exemplu: the army, the crowd, the government, the police, the parliament

- Inaintea unor nume proprii (nume de familie, muzee, teatre, ziare, hoteluri,
etc):
Exemplu: the Browns, the Johns, the National Theatre, the Marriott Grand
Hotel, the New York Times, the Beatles

- Inaintea substantivelor care indica nume de locuri geografice, munti, fluvii,

oceane, mari etc:
Exemplu: the Alps, the Atlantic, the Thames, the Danube, the Red Sea, the
Sahara

Articolul nehotarat A / AN
Utilizam articolul nehotarat A:
Inaintea substantivelor care incep cu o consoana:
Exemple: a girl, a boy, a teacher, a family, a classroom

Utilizam articolul nehotarat AN:

Inaintea substantivelor care incep cu o vocala (a, e, i, o, u):
Exemple: an elephant, an apple, an interview, an onion, an action

Articolul nehotarat - exceptii:

- Folosim articolul nehotarat AN inaintea unui substantiv care incepe cu litera
"h", doar atunci cand este vorba despre un "h mut".
Exemple: an hour, an honour

- Folosim articolul nehotarat A inaintea unui substantiv care incepe cu litera "u"
sau grupul de litere "eu", doar atunci cand acestea se pronunta ca "you"
Exemple: a European, a university, a unit

Cand folosim articolul nehotarat A/AN?

- Inaintea unui substantiv concret nedeterminat si numarabil:
Exemple: A boy entered into the classroom.
The reporter took an interview.

- Inaintea unui substantiv concret cu functia de nume predicativ:

Exemplu: She is a teacher.
Ronnie is an elephant.

Articolul zero
Nu folosim articol in urmatoarele situatii:
- Inaintea substantivelor care indica nume proprii la singular:
Exemplu: Paul is going to the school.

- Inaintea substantivelor care indica nume de tari, orase si limba acestora:

Exemple: France is a European country.
You speak English fluently.
Bucharest is the capital of Romania.

- In unele expresii invariabile:

Exemplu: by car, at school, in church, by train
- Inaintea substantivelor abstracte, care indica nume de culori, stiinte, arte,
materii etc:
Exemplu: beauty, health, dinner, lunch, breakfast, truth, green, gold, silver,
mathematics, physics

Exercitii
1. Completati cu a / an / the acolo unde este cazul:

___ woman
___ unit
___ United States of America
___ Johnsons
___ elephant
___ beauty
___ hour
___ Thames

2. Completati propozitiile din textul de mai jos cu a/an:

a) ___ old woman laughed at him.

b) ___ cat and ___ dog were in the kitchen.
c) I saw ___ elephant at the zoo.
d) It was ___ excellent movie.
e) She watched ___ TV show

3. Completati cu a / an / the acolo unde este cazul:

Daniel is ___ teacher. He likes ___ Physics very much. He teaches at ___
Theoretical Highschool from ___ Bucharest. ___pupils like him very much. One
day, he decided to take ___ children to see ___ laboratory from another
highschool. There, they made ___ experiment. All ___ children considered ___
experiment ___ most interesting they have ever made.