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This quiz helps children identify which indefinite article and demonstrative to use. This quiz should be used after elementary school children have learned which letters are vowels. Becoming familiar with when to use the indefinite articles and demonstratives helps their sentence level. In addition, it adds a feather in their English and literacy cap.
Instead of ‘a’, if a word begins with a vowel, we write ‘an’. If we wrote ‘elephant’ but there was one, we would write ‘an elephant’ because the word begins with an ‘e’, a vowel. We always write ‘an’ for words beginning with vowels.
See if you know when to use ‘a’ or ‘an’.
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If you say each sentence out loud, you might easily spot the correct one.
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The word 'apple' begins with an 'a', which is a vowel. Because the word begins with a vowel, we would write 'an apple'.
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An elk is a type of deer.
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The ocean lies underneath those clouds.
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The woman and child are feeding this dog.
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We could say it is an assortment of toys, or a toy.
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We would say 'a seal' and all the others begin with a vowel and would have 'an' in front of them.
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Remember that these and those are both plural words.
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The sun shines over those trees.
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The words 'a' and 'an' mean one, so if you are writing about roses, you wouldn't use either indefinite article.
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