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What part of speech are the words a and an?

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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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