16 EXAMPLES of PRAYERS with DETERMINED articles

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In this lesson we are going to learn about examples of sentences with certain articles. When we study Spanish grammar, we find all kinds of words, ranging from verbs and adjectives to articles, pronouns, conjunctions, etc. In this sense, in this class of a PROFESSOR we will learn more about the specific articles.

Thus, we will not stay only in the examples of various phrases and constructions, we will go much further to know what is the specific article and what are the differences with respect to indeterminate articles. Once we know exactly what this concept is, and how to differentiate it from other similarities, it will be much easier to use it knowingly in any sentence. Grab your pencil and your notebook, the lesson begins.

Index

1. What is a specific item - examples
2. Examples of sentences with specific articles
3. Differences between definite and indeterminate articles

First, before exemplifying various sentences with certain items, let's find out what exactly we are talking about.

The definite or definite article in Castilian it is a element that determines the noun. So we find a total of five, which are: the, the, the, the and the. That is, a specific article is in charge of informing about the noun that it is associated with, remembering that it is already something or someone known.

If we go into detail about the specific article, we find that they are used in case of:

• Have to use the singular masculine, for which we will use the article the. For example, the dog.
• It will be used for the feminine singular Article the. An example is fruit.
• In case of masculine plural, have the. For example, the glasses.
• In the case of feminine plural, have the, and go as an example the friends.
• Finally, we find the neutral item. In this case, the item is it, and a good example would be to say "The impossible, like the famous movie."

It is necessary to remember that in Spanish grammar you can never use a specific article to accompany a person's name. That is, although it is popularly used in speech, neither Pedro nor Juana should be written or pronounced. On the other hand, it is accepted for proper names that do not define people, such as the name of certain places that the article usually carries. This is the case of the Aneto or the Pyrenees.

There are also situations in which, although it should be, can be omitted. For example, for expressions like The apartment is sold, since it is accepted Apartment for sale.

In addition, the particular article may suffer some kind of contraction with another preposition, creating a different one, but equally accepted. As examples, we find "Al teatro" or "Del chico", among many others.

Examples of specific items

So that you finish understanding the definition of a specific article, we are going to a series of examples that will help you better visualize everything explained above:

• He told me that he would take me THE car tomorrow
• We buy THE oranges you recommended.
• I'm not sure WHAT you're asking me.
• MY mother's friends are very young.
• Yesterday I bought THE bag that I saw in the magazine.

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We remember that Certain items are: the, the, the, the, the. Therefore, so that you finish understanding this lesson well, we are going to offer you sample sentences with specific articles that will help you contextualize everything we have learned previously.

Here we leave you some phrases with specific articles that will help you:

• THE street boys play very well with THE piñata.
• The kid has a naughty little dog.
• The lady is very flirtatious.
• ON Tuesdays my father cooks soup with chicken.
• The very naughty boy for his age.
• The children are very well behaved.
• The girl in the green dress is very attractive.
• THE soccer teams are ready to play.
• The teacher wants to send me to work.
• The child is very thin.
• Julián's parents have THE car in the workshop.
• Yesterday I met my boyfriend's brothers.
• The neighbors of the first are very young.
• My father gave me THE book that he loved so much.
• The English teacher is very nice.
• When I got to THE school, THE math teacher was already in class.

Also when we are going to construct sentences with certain articles, it is necessary to know how they differ from indeterminate. Let's see the main ones.

Although a determined article determines a noun, that is, the substantive and is known, in the case of indeterminate ones, the noun is unknown by the speaker. Thus, the indeterminate articles are: one, one, ones and ones.

That is, according to the meaning of the phrase, one type or another of article will have to be used. In the case of the indeterminates, we can observe how the meaning changes depending on whether it is used, or a certain one:

• Your son is with my neighbor in THE room.
• Your son is with my neighbor in ONE room.

We observe that we go from knowing which is the specific room, since it is substantiated, to not knowing in which of them the child could be.

We can verify in this case that we use a certain article when we already know something, such as the cat or the girl. However, when it is the first time we discover it, or we do not know what we are talking about exactly, we will use the expression a cat or a girl. Everything will depend on the context in which each action occurs.

In this other article we will discover what are the definite and indeterminate articles so you can better see the differences between the two.

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• Di Tullio, Á. (2005). Spanish grammar manual.
• Torrego, L. G. (2015). Didactic grammar of Spanish. Editions SM Spain.