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## KNOWING THE ARTICLES 

There are three articles . They are usually placed before nouns and they are : the, a, an. 

‘The’ is the definite article . This is placed before a specific thing: 

The team cheered its opponents. 

‘A’ and ‘an’ are indefinite articles and are used more gener- ally. ‘An’ is always used before a vowel: 

He brought a computer. 

There was an epidemic of smallpox in the eighteenth century. 

## UNDERSTANDING VERBS 

A verb is a ‘doing’ or ‘being’ word. The ‘doing’ verbs are easy to identify: to write, to play, to dance, to work, etc. 

## Looking at the verb ‘to be’ 

There is one ‘being’ verb. The present and past tenses of the verb ‘to be’ are shown below. 

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