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- pronunciation:
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| definition 1: |
An article is something you can read in a magazine or newspaper. You can also find articles on a website or in some kinds of books. An article talks about real things. It is not a story that the writer has made up. An article is not usually very long. Sometimes it can fit on just one part of a page. A newspaper has many articles.
My mom told me about an article she read in the newspaper. It was about hurricanes and other storms.- similar words:
- composition, essay, paper, paragraph, piece, report, review, story, study
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An article is a thing or type of thing.
A sock is an article of clothing. Pants, dresses, and socks are different articles of clothing.People sometimes leave articles of theirs on an airplane when they get off. They just forget them.- synonyms:
- item
- similar words:
- element, object, thing, unit
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| definition 3: |
When we describe the type of words that make up the English language, the words "a," "an," and "the" are called "articles." They are used before words that are nouns. Some of the other types of words in English are verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. These types of words all together are called "parts of speech."
English uses articles, but some other languages do not use them. Russian and Japanese, for example, do not use articles. There is no way to say "a" or "the" in these languages.
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