Question

___ elephant is a very strong animal.

Answer 1

An Elephant is a very strong animal.

Importance of articles in English Grammar

• The words that are used before a noun to specify or generalize them are known as articles.
• Articles are words that are used to tell if someone is talking about a specified thing or a general thing.
• Two types of articles are definite and indefinite articles.
• The word "the" is definite and it is used to specify the nouns to only one thing.
• The words "a" and "an" are indefinite articles that are used to create a general sentence.

Answer 2

An

Explanation:

Article:

In English language we have to use articles before noun to identify whether we have used that noun generally or specifically.

Here in the above given sentence elephant is a noun which is used in general sense to show the animal elephant. So we have to use 'an' article before that noun.

We should write an article because if we pronounce the word elephant it begins with vowel sound.

So we should write the answer-

An elephant is a strong animal.

A article is used when the noun begins with consonant sound.

examples-

a ball, a cow, a bat, a table

The article is used when we talk about specific object, thing or place.

here in the given sentence if we talk about one specific elephant then we have to use 'the' article before it.

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