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Articles "the" "a", and "an" are adjectives. They are also known as determiners.

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Is article an adjective?

No. An article is not technically an adjective, but its sole purpose (like adjectives) is to modify a noun. Articles can be called 'determiners' which are parts of speech considered separately from adjectives.


Is the letter a an adjective?

Yes, it is called an article--the, an, and a are all articles, and they are also considered adjectives.


Is an adjective called a modifier?

Yes, sometimes adjectives are referred to as modifiers.


What type of adjectives are a an and the?

"A" is an indefinite article as is the word "an" ; "the" is a definite article .


Why are a an the and this adjectives?

The words a, an, and the are called articles, a type of determiner that is usually classified separately from adjectives. The word 'this' is not an article. It can be called an adjective or a determiner when used with a noun (this boy, this book). And 'this' can also be used as a pronoun (e.g. This is the place).


Is an article a preposition?

Articles are 'a', 'an' and 'the'. The are not prepositions. They are a form of adjectives.


A and and the are examples of this type of adjective?

"a" and "the" are not adjectives. These are examples of what we call article(s).


Is an a particular noun?

"an" is an article like a. They do not belong to nouns, verbs or adjectives.


Is a an adjective or an adverb?

The words a, an, and the are called articles, and usually classed separately among 'determiners' (adjectives, articles, demonstratives, and possessives).


Is 'a' a noun interjection conjunction or preposition?

It is none of them. The word 'a' is called an article (an indefinite article) and is classified as a 'determiner' which is a separate class from the related words, which are adjectives.


What type of adjective is an?

"An" is not an adjective, it's an indefinite article. ("The" is a definite article.) It is sometimes called a determiner."An" is not an adjective but one of the forms of the indefinite article, the other one being "a": A dog, An apple.


What kind of adjectives is used most frequently in ordinary speech or writing?

Article