An article is a word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. The three main articles in the English language are the, an and a. An article is sometimes called a Noun marker, although this is generally considered to be an archaic term.
Determiner (class) Definiteness Mass noun Noun Middle English English language Definite article reduction Topic-comment X-bar theory A and an Definite description Eye dialect Neuter Lexical category Latgalian language Count noun Al- Homeric Greek Merge Teh Prescription Life on the Mississippi Ivana Trump That Thorn (letter) Noun phrase Mayflower Compact Feminine Early Modern English Voiceless dental plosive Voiced dental plosive Cursive Modern English Voiced dental fricative French language Authorized King James Version Nursery rhyme Pronoun Glottal stop Grammatical gender
