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Definite and indefinite articles
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[Voiceover] So we've covered the basic idea that divides the usage of "the" from a" and an".발음듣기
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So when you're being non-specific in language, you would use the indefinite article as in, "May I have an orange?"발음듣기
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Cause it doesn't matter which orange you're asking for, you don't care, it's any orange, as opposed to if you wanted the orange.발음듣기
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You see the orange in particular that you want, you're identifying it, you're asking for it.발음듣기
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Something that's interesting about the word "the" is that it can be used for both singular and plural nouns.발음듣기
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Well it means that if you know that word that you're going to say next like ah or ooh or eh or uh or ee, then you're gonna change it to "an".발음듣기
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And any linguist will tell you that the way languages develop is that they were word laziness.발음듣기
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Something a little weird though, you want to make sure that you're looking for vowel sounds not just for vowels.발음듣기
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Sometimes if they're at the beginning of a word, like in word union, so if you say "a union," that produces a yuh" sound, and yuh" is technically a consonant sound.발음듣기
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But there are certainly cases like "An underwater boat," where the letter U does produce an ooh" or an uh" sound, and that's a vowel.발음듣기
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So if you're gonna start the word with a vowel sound, what you wanna do is choose "an" instead of a" but just be careful of the letter U for example.발음듣기
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"A" or an" is indefinite and it's only singular, so you can say "May I have an orange?" or "May I have some oranges?"발음듣기
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