Why are articles necessary?
Articles are necessary to let the person reading or listening to us know which things or p[eople we are referring to. The article, definite or indefinite as the case may be, lets the reader/listener know which particular or general class of things or people we are discussing. Therefore articles fall into the calss of words called determiners.
As a general rule countable nouns need articles for this purpose.
Consider this sentence:
A person lives in a house, a rabbit lives in a burrow.
Consider the sentence without the articles
Person lives in house, rabbit lives in burrow.
See the effect?
Articles are necessary to let the person reading or listening to us know which things or p[eople we are referring to. The article, definite or indefinite as the case may be, lets the reader/listener know which particular or general class of things or people we are discussing. Therefore articles fall into the calss of words called determiners.
As a general rule countable nouns need articles for this purpose.
Consider this sentence:
A person lives in a house, a rabbit lives in a burrow.
Consider the sentence without the articles
Person lives in house, rabbit lives in burrow.
See the effect?
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