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The indefinite article a

• a (or an) is used with countable nouns (> Exercise 6) to indicate one.
Can I have a cup of tea?

I've got a daughter and two sons.

• a is not used before a plural noun (NOT I've got a sons).

• a is not used before uncountable nouns (NOT I want a petrol, please).

a is used with countable nouns to indicate one:

I've got two bikes and a car.

She's a lawyer.

He's a teacher.

• the is used:

a) when a word is used a second time;

He gave me a knife and a spoon. The spoon was dirty.

I bought a pen and some paper, but I left the pen in the shop.

b) when only one object exists:

the earth, the sun, the River Thames

No article or the before names of places

• a or the is not usually used before names of villages, towns, streets, cities, countries or continents.

She lives in Paris.

We went to India.

• the is used before names of seas, rivers, groups of islands or mountains, kingdoms, republics, deserts, plural names of countries: the Atlantic Ocean,
the River Thames, the Netherlands, the Arctic (land and sea), the Antarctic

(land and sea), the Alps, the United States of America, the United Arab

Emirates, the Sahara, the United Kingdom, the Nile, the Gobi Desert.