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English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers

Steve Hart

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9789888390755

Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: January 2018

DOI: 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390755.001.0001

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English Exposed
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Steve Hart

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Hong Kong University Press
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888390755.003.0002

This chapter presents the different types of article occurring in English and introduces the concept of definiteness to understand which article should be used for which situation. The chapter reveals the most common mistakes and how they can be rectified. It also explores the relationship between articles and generic reference and explains what fixed phrases are.

Keywords:   singular nouns, an, the, definite article, indefinite article, generic, fixed phrases

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