This flashcard explains the use of articles with nouns, emphasizing that the article is generally not used before the personal name 'Tom'.
Tämä muistilappu selittää artikkelien käyttöä substantiivien kanssa ja korostaa, että henkilönnimeä "Tom" edellä artikkelia ei yleensä käytetä.
| Task | Have you seen _ Tom today? |
|---|---|
| Answer | 4 |
| a | a |
| b | an |
| c | the |
| d | — |
| comment | Usually we use the zero article (no article) before the name of an individual person: Claude Monet is my favourite painter. But be attentive, we should use ‘the’ when there are two people with the same name to specify which one we mean: That’s not the Stephano Periccelli who I worked with in New York.In the test sentence ‘Have you seen _ Tom today?’ we are given the name of a particular person –Tom. And we don’t distinguish him from someone else who has the same name. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 4 (-). |
| topic | articles |
| level | 1 |
Tags: 282
Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.
Next card: Present past i find mark sentence time marker
Previous card: Test sentence yellow amazing subject word order julia
Up to card list: 1200 English Grammar Tasks with answer and explains