What part of speech are the words a and an?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

They are both indefinite articles (indef. art.) e.g. "A piece of paper," meaning it could be any piece (indefinite) as opposed to the definite article (def. art.) "the," e.g. "The piece of paper," meaning a specific piece (definite.)

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∙ 12y ago

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