Article mistake
”I pointed way for him when he was in low ebb.” In this sentence I missed an article before way. Many writers usually have this problem. A and an have the same meaning with one. A is used before consonant and an is used before vowel. They used to describe one kind of noun. In this sentence, I missed an indefinite article before way. What I want to present is “I” want to show a path for “him” to get out of the low ebb. In this sentence, “way” is a kind of thing that have different types. There are lots of way but not limit on one way, so we use a but not the. If a noun doesn’t have any article, it usually is wrong.
”I pointed way for him when he was in low ebb.” In this sentence I missed an article before way. Many writers usually have this problem. A and an have the same meaning with one. A is used before consonant and an is used before vowel. They used to describe one kind of noun. In this sentence, I missed an indefinite article before way. What I want to present is “I” want to show a path for “him” to get out of the low ebb. In this sentence, “way” is a kind of thing that have different types. There are lots of way but not limit on one way, so we use a but not the. If a noun doesn’t have any article, it usually is wrong.
“Generally creative writing is the piece of writing that written follow people’s heart.” In this sentence I missed an a between is and piece. It said creative writing is a kind of writing. We should add an a before piece of writing. A piece of writing follow people’s heart is not specific so we use a but not the.
“For example, if I say, "Let's read the book," I mean a specific book. If I say, "Let's read a book," I mean any book rather than a specific book.
Here's another way to explain it: The is used to refer to a specific or particular member of a group. For example, "I just saw the most popular movie of the year." There are many movies, but only one particular movie is the most popular. Therefore, we use the "A/an" is used to refer to a non-specific or non-particular member of the group. For example, "I would like to go see a movie." Here, we're not talking about a specific movie. We're talking about any movie. There are many movies, and I want to see any movie. I don't have a specific one in mind.”
(https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/01/)
How to avoid this problem in the future? I think when first we should read our essay after we write it. When we are reading we should focus on all the nouns we wrote. Articles are all related to nouns, so when we check every noun in the article, we can find out those wrong places easily. Using of indefinite article and definite article is harder. We need specify the noun is definite of not. For example a name usually is definite, but we don’t need to add “the” before it. An apple is not definite and start with vowel, so we use an before apple. After we know that articles are, we can avoid this mistake in our writing.
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