9 RULES OF ARTICLES - A, AN, THE or 'THEE' ? - Use and pronounce correctly every time!
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- Learn English grammar articles a, and and the. Learn whether to pronounce 'the' or 'thee' and 'an' or un'. This English grammar class shows the 9 rules of articles in English. Sign up to audible for a FREE audiobook: (Amazon Affiliate) geni.us/gkEx
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I’m aware of the error - Ukraine has no article. Sorry for any offence caused - this part has been removed from the video. When I was a child I had a talking globe - you could touch it with a pen and it would say the country name. For some reason this globe used an article with Ukraine, and I learnt to say it that way. I am now fully aware that there is NO article. Lucy x
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Hello lovely students! When I originally published this video in 2019, I made a mistake. I had always learnt that Ukraine included an article, like The United Kingdom. I put it in this video, and naturally, my Ukrainian students were pretty upset, so I made the video private. I have now edited out this section of the video at 21:40, but I couldn't remove the text without removing the entire list of exceptions, so here they are:
The United Kingdom,
The United States
The Philippines,
The Czech Republic
I hope that clears up any doubts!
by the way - if you are watching within 4 hours of the edit, it might not be loaded yet and you might still see the mistake! It will be gone as soon as TH-cam processes the edit
I found your lesson quite interesting and, of course, very informative for learners. Thank you for it.
One thing that you didn't explain was the usage of 'a' and 'an' preceeding words starting with 'h'. For example, 'a hospital' and 'an hotel', which depends upon the accent, or pronunciation, of the word.
Shall be thankful for a small lesson on the same. This is mainly for the people who learn English as a second or third language.
Regards.
I. Sengupta.
Lucy, here, in Romania 🇹🇩, we were also taught this rule: The Ukraine. Thank you immensely for this fabulous lesson. ❤
No problem💙💙💙💙
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I am from Bangladesh...
This topic is so much important...
This class is absolutely awesome..
Tnx Ma'am..
You’re such a teacher...whom the whole class have a crush on you...and all they do is gaze at you...all motions shut...
This video is amazingly helpful! Thanks to the fact that it's well presented and well made it's easier to remember all these rules!
Watching your English lessons is truly amazing. I am learning new things as a native English speaker. 🎉🥰
So appealing, Lucy!!!
Thanks a million for your efforts ❤️
Thank you lovely and sweet teacher. Your teaching is simply fab.
I would love to watch the video about words like: than, then, their, there, this, those, they, that and on.
Also “in, on, at..” The meaning of them is clear but sometimes it gets messed up in my head. Thank you.
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Let me try to help:
Then is usually a comparison of time like, “I will do this then that,” than is a comparison of object, “ I would rather do this than that!”
There and their is simple. There is a point of time or place, like, “it’s over there!”
Their is the possessive of they like, “Its their ball.”
I'm absolutely obsess with your all lessons . Thank you so much
Hi Lucy!
I'd like to thank you for teaching us English. I've watched video lessons from other teachers, but I must say you're tbe best teacher I've known so far.
Me too.
Thank you for being so clear and detailed.
Thank you so much for the video! This really helps me when I learn English!!!
Full of information about the article. Thanks, Lucy, you absolutely explained well.
I love this accent, I'm glad to learn english 🇬🇧
Hi Lucy you really improving my communication skills may God bless you
thank you very much. All was abolutely clear and easily understandable !!!
Very impressive lesson
Most of the people watch your video to see you and feel energetic like you..❤
I got it! Thank you for your teaching. I was always confused with articles but now I see. Cheers.
Lucy, you just make difference in use and pronounce a, and & the easy to follow. Thanks
Thenk you very much for lesson teacher
I 'm from India upload video every day ma'm. Your voice is so clear than others who live in English Country.
Phenomenal way of teaching.
Now it’s crystal clear. I have read so many grammar books, but I didn’t understand clearly about the articles. By watching this video, it changes my thought on articles which was blur. Thank you Lucy for delivering such an awesome video like this.
Great teacher 👏🏼👏🏼
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It helps a lot in teaching... brilliant
Very useful! Thanks a lot Lucy.❤❤
I think I'm not alone, who watched this fantastic video lesson in 2023
Yeah I have an exam tomorrom lmao
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Hello supper Lucy. I always enjoyed your amazing teaching .
Yeah, she is ..
What a break down . Excellent job
Thanx Teacher Lucy
I'm an English teacher as well and this is where I come for inspiration when I'm preparing great lessons for my students. Thank you Lucy
Love being your student since forever ❤️, what a great teacher!
Really excellent teaching lesson for beginners.
Thank you very much, amazing lesson.
I never had such a teacher. Thank you so much.
finally i understand the difference of "a", thank you Lucy 🤓
I really love your way of teaching ❤️❤️❤️
Bela aula!
Omg! You r such an angel, you like reached me out when ı was looking for an “article” subject cuz having difficulty on this subject and confusing about what should i put here “a or the” situations sometimes 😂👌
Loved it when you said platform nine and three quarters
LUCY, thanks for this lesson... wonderful and complete.
Thank u for Amazing lesson
first :)
This is kind of cheat😂
Yeah! you are
That's unfair! 😂
@@mortezamozafari3956 hehehe
@@mortezamozafari3956 Not just a little! :-)
1- Such (a) lovely lesson !
2 - What (an) interesting lesson is this !
What an interesting lesson this is!
Thank you Lucy for teaching about these 9 rules of articles. Earlier I was confusing about how to use them when speaking English. Now I know the difference Lucy
Thank you ,teacher
For the next video, would you mind to share when to use have,has and had? Thankyou ☺️
OMG you read my mind - its coming, along with has been, have been and had been :D
Have: I, you, they have each their book that has a flower on the top. I had that flower in my bridal bouquet and in the decoration in my wedding.
Hii lucy my lovely teacher..,
I'm from Ethiopia
keep blessing up..😘😍
Lucy, when you make these videos you speak so perfect, slow and clear, Im very greatful for you for speaking like that, thank you again.
What a great teacher
Lucy is a visionary because I was looking for it from a long time.
Thanks a lot! As to Ukraine, we used ‘ the’ when our country was a part of the former Soviet Union ( by the way, it was the only republic used with ‘the’). Now we don’ t use the article. Thank you for your work.
Sure in Ukrainian English :)))
It is difficult to force a name or the grammar of the name of a country in another language when that language has a name for that country and the language is not an official language of the country. Ivory Coast tried to get the English name of the country changed to the French name with French spelling and pronunciation. (Côte d'Ivoire). You won't hear many English speakers doing that.
@@jimjungle1397 Sri Lanka did it without any problem
I really like this lesson and video. I was confused with something, but now it's cleared to me. Thank you so much ma'am
I'm from Bangladesh i learned article with your helping video
"The" is also used with last names, when you want to mention the whole family, so you'd say:
- the Smith(s) family
- the Adams family
Or groups: the youth (young persons), the poor (poor people)
The poor
The rich
The young
The injured
The unemployed
Interesting lesson!
We also use 'the' when we refer to a specific group of people, such as 'the blind' or 'the deaf'.
By the way, when we talk about going to the hospital/school/university/prison/church we use 'the' if we go there for other purposes, for example, to work or for a visit. But if someone stays there, for instance - as a patient or as a student, we do not use 'the'. 😊
thank you!! this is a very good point! i didn't know this rule. could you please teach me how would you say in this following case; my mother is in the hospital for a treatment and i want to ask my boss for a half-holiday to visit her.
@@oioibee Hmm, maybe something like this: 'Would it be a problem if I use half a day and visit my mother in the hospital?' (but you would say 'my mother is in hospital', without 'the')
I'm not quite sure; I am just a student, after all. 😉
@@stonemaryosos6001 thank you!
@@oioibee You're welcome 😊
Thank you, it is very useful!!
I have been watching TH-cam for English for a long time but I haven't seen anyone better than you and really you are so beautiful. Really your voice is so clear and whatever you are explaining that is outstanding no one else has ability to explain like you
Cool video, always struggled with "the" and "thee"
So glad I could help you!!!
Beware thee is also used as a 2nd person pronoun, you might hear this in places that seem rural such as Cornwall, Yorkshire and Norfolk.
@@jameshumphreys9715 Yes, it evolved from the predecesor of both "thee" and "you", "thou"
I notice that many English professional people on tv and in newspapers make these mistakes. I get so mad! So your lessons should be listened and learned to by Indigenous people from England.
You’ll be surprised. Many indigenous English speaking people do
Thanks, Lucy. You're a brilliant teacher.
Thank you very much Lucy! Love you so much !
Ur accent is so satisfying..😍😍
Heya you're dark angel and see I'm dark emeralds
@@sohamroy6810 oh hey both belong to darkness😉😉😘😘❤
Hey angel you should say they "belong" not "belongs" cuz it's plural
@@sohamroy6810 😊😊😊😊😊😄
@@anna-ke7yj don't laugh dear :)
Love you Lucy ma'am ❤
Very useful information
Loved the way of your teaching skills
I was always confused about the and thee thanks your lesson helped 😊
21:55 I think the Netherlands also uses a 'the'.
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Hello Lucy,
I am a beginner to English learning from Sri Lanka. Your English lessons really inspired me and that made me obsessed with English learning. You are really doing a good job by helping the students and wish you all the very best. Keep it up...♥️
Excellent lesson Lucy, I love all the content and the way you present it to us; always very clear.
I was hating English teachers until I met you
We use “ an. “ with words that start with vowels ( a, e, I, o, u ).
Thank you for the tips!
Pronunciation I think that is fairly easy for us Greeks because we do not have "heavy" pronunciation in Greek like...for example Russians or Spanish people!
So we can easily learn the pronunciation of another language!
My teacher at the first grades of school told us "learn first the correct form(grammar) and then practise your pronunciation!"
Big mistake!
I agree with you! If you get used to a bad pronunciation then it is much more difficult to change it!
I struggled a lot trying to talk correctly and your videos is such a great help, as I want to learn the British pronunciation and not those horrible American sounds...
Thanks again!🙏
Love from Greece🇬🇷
Thanks a lot جزاک اللہ خیرا ❤❤❤
"We love having you."
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UKRAINE
without ''the''
Allright, at 21:50 this woman with blond hair just shows a lack of knowledge about Ukraine.
@Amite It's no doubt in such fact that Lucy deserves a full respect both as the teacher and the beautiful woman, but this comment will be useful not only for English native speackers but also for Ukrainians who start discower world in this way on this channel.
@Amite Yes, I fully agree. She is perfect. TH-cam promoted me this amazing channel very recently. I hope to find enough time for watching a full set of her lessons.
The conscious ukrainian people everywhere. You are becoming very annoying.
@@pbdrus only for another "Ukrainian" people
Love you classes
Growling up in London and interacting with people and hearing different pronunciations all the time has made me so confused about what is the right way of speaking English and videos like this helps a lot.
I get mixed up with speaking the road/hood language with proper English.
I only want to speak English like the MPs talk in the parliament which is proper English and videos like this helps a lot!
Thank you for a great lesson!’ Well done! 👌🏼
I have a small question: are you sure that we say “The Ukraine” but not “Ukraine” ?
I have looked up in several dictionaries, and all of them refer to “Ukraine”...
Hello! I'm from Ukraine and I'm an English teacher. We don't use the indefinite article "the" before the word Ukraine. The same is with Russia or Belarus. Maybe it's because Ukraine is the republic. We should use the definite article when we use such words. as "a republic, kingdom, federation". For example, the republic Belarus
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Thank you so much.
A useful video to improve my grammar and vocabulary. I knew some rules, but I was misusing some of them.
Thanks, Lucy, you're the best teacher!
I have noticed that many TH-camrs say “thee” all the time.
"Thee" is perfectly appropriate before a word that starts with a vowel sound or to apply emphasis.
They might wanna sound emphasizing.
It's used for emphasis. You will hear it more in media
"The Ukraine" is incorrect both grammatically and politically, says Oksana Kyzyma of the Embassy of Ukraine in London.
"Ukraine is both the conventional short and long name of the country," she says. "This name is stated in the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence and Constitution."
The use of the article relates to the time before independence in 1991, when Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet Union known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, she says. Since then, it should be merely Ukraine.
There are different versions of English in different countries (Australia, NZ, US, India and so on), so as different russan languages in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus'. For example, the name of my country in Russian Russian is Byelarussia. And nobody argue about it. You may call "Ukraine" and Englishmen can call "The Ukraine". There is no contradiction.
@@michaelpodoksenov4021 Напишу тебе на русском, чтобы было понятно. Если ты оккупант и не считаешь Украину суверенным государством, то ты используешь предлог "на" ну и в таком же контексте артикль "The". Так мы, украинцы, определяем кого оставлять НА земле, а кого зарывать В землю. Так понятно?
@@andreykravchenkodontdelete2554 Мне понятно одно: ты болен на голову, как националисты всех мастей, и читать не умеешь. На немецком Беларусь "вайсруссланд" . И пусть говорят, как хотят - это их дело и мне это фиолетово. По твоему немцы должны бить англичанам морду за то, что те их страну "Germany", а не "Deutschland" называют, а французов вешать на деревьях за их "Allemagne"? Хотят русские говорить "на Украине" - это их дело. Это норма русского языка, и никаким украинцам не следует учить русских русскому языку. Между прочим, я гражданин Беларуси. Так что за оккупанта тебе стоит извиниться.
Ирландия, Исландия, Кипр, Куба - всё острова и государства одновременно. Однако нормой является "В Ирландии", "В Исландии", но "На Кубе", "На Кипре". Скандинавия и Камчатка - полуострова, но "В Скандинавии" и "На Камчатке". Ни один придурок на Кубе не требует от русских говорить "В Кубе".
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I was so happy when you mentioned the Czech Republic, since our tiny country isn't really known to most of the western world. Great video, btw. I always struggled with overusing "the" but now I know the rules and can avoid my mistakes
"The" is used with objects that are one of a kind, like the Moon, the Earth
Hi.
Is your English is fluent?
English is my second language so I might be wrong, but I would rather say 'Earth' than 'the Earth', because it's a name. Can anyone verify if I get it right?
Earth as a proper noun, doesn't use The. The earth, not a proper noun, refers to the ground.
You forgot the only city in Netherlands that uses the article and that is "The Hague". Cheers!
The Netherlands as a country name is also always named by the definite article.
@@DidrickNamtvedt I know thanks for updates mate ;)
I think that Lucy has not forgotten these exepttion. She did not choose them to her presentation. The task of including all exception simply cannot be done. I wish you all the best fun and efficiency in learning English with Lucy.
Thank u so much teacher! ♥️
Thanks teacher. It seems like languages, similar to mathematics and other computer based languages, if not revised often, just evaporates into the ether.
Lucy how could you say "I thin I'll have a coffee" and later in the video explain that 'a' can't be used with 'coffee'?
She means 'a cup of coffe' generally it can turn into 'a coffe' 😄
I make it clear that when I say 'a water' or 'a coffee' I mean 'a glass of water' and 'a cup of coffee' :)
@@EnglishwithLucy What about the word "bread", what should I say when I want to order 2 or 3 loaves of bread. Can I say " 2 breads, please" or "I would like to have a bread."
You shouldn't use the Ukraine, it's just Ukraine. It changed about 20 years ago, I think. The same goes for Congo. And the Hague is a nice exception for cities.
I've just done some research and you're totally right. Most people in the UK still use the article before Ukraine, but I can see that it's disrespectful! Very sorry to any offended Ukrainians. xxx
@@EnglishwithLucy I'm not Ukrainian, just very passionate about articles. xD Still, it can be kind of controversial so I wanted to mention it.
@@EnglishwithLucy how can the article or its absence be offensive for a country and people who live there?
@@nikitasasl-robloxgame76 Use of the definite article was seen as suggesting a non-sovereign territory. That's why in 1993 the Ukrainian government explicitly requested that the article be dropped.
Thank you so much... for resolving my problem... ❤️
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I'm from Ukraine. We actually do not use "the" with the name of our country. Although I used to find a couple of mentions in the old textbooks of 90-s.
While we might be merely talking about that country in the past tense, soon.
I didn't know the different pronuntations ?? They're two for every kind ??
yes
I would like to have a... no an... no no the ice cream.
Can i say an hour
I love the way you teach. It is so satisfying. Your lessons are far best for any English language learner. They are helping me to improve my pronunciation and accent. Keep posting such lessons.
Wonderful and so useful lesson, thanks a lot Lucy!