True or false: when no article is needed
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- An article always stands with a noun.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Every noun in every sentence must take an article.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- 'The' can stand before a plural noun.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- 'A' can stand before a plural noun.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- 'A' and 'an' point to one of a class.
Explanation
Articles stand with nouns, but not every noun takes one. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), public domain.