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Mạo từ ( Articles) cách sử dụng + Bai tap
1 Định nghĩa: Mạo từ là từ dùng trước danh từ và cho biết danh từ ấy đề cập đến một đối tượng xác định hay
không xác định.
Mạo từ xác định (Denfinite article): the
Maọ từ bất định (Indefinite article): a, an
2. Mạo từ bất định (Indefinite articles) - a, an - Dùng trước danh từ đếm được (số ít) - khi danh từ đó chưa
được xác định (bất định). "an" dung cho danh từ bắt đầu bằng nguyên âm (nhưng phụ thuộc vào cách phát âm).
Ví dụ: a book, a table an apple, an orange
- Đặc biệt một số từ "h" được đọc như nguyên âm. Ví dụ: an hour, an honest man
3. Mạo từ xác định (Definite article)
3.1 Cách đọc : "the" được đọc là [di] khi đứng trước danh từ bắt đầu bằng nguyên âm (a, e, i, o, u) và đọc là
(dơ) khi đứng trước danh từ bắt đầu bằng phụ âm (trừ các nguyên âm):
The egg the chair The umbrellae the book
The được đọc là [dơ] khi đứng trước danh từ có cách viết bắt đầu bằng nguyên âm nhưng có cách đọc bằng một
phụ âm + nguyên âm: /ju:/ và /w^n/ như:
The United Stated /The Europeans /The one-eyed man is the King of the blind. /The university
The được đọc là [di] khi đứng trước danh từ có h không đọc:
The [di] hour (giờ) The [di] honestman
3.2 Một số nguyên tắc chung:
a/ The được dùng trước danh từ chỉ người , vật đã được xác định :
Mạo từ xác định "the" được dùng trước danh từ để diễn tả một ( hoặc nhiều) người , vật, sự vật nào đó
đã được xác định rồi, nghĩa là cả người nói và người nghe đều biết đối tượng được đề cập tới. Khi nói ' Mother
is in the garden' (Mẹ đang ở trong vườn), cả người nói lẫn người nghe đều biết khu vườn đang được đề cập tới
là vườn nào, ở đâu. Chúng ta xem những ví dụ khác:
The Vietnamese often drink tea. ( Người Việt Nam thường uống trà nói chung)
3.3 Những trường hợp đặc biệt:
a/ Các từ ngữ thông dụng sau đây không dùng the :
Go to church: đi lễ ở Nhà thờ / go to the church: đến nhà thờ (ví dụ: để gặp Linh mục)
Go to market: đi chợ / go to the market: đi đến chợ (ví dụ: để khảo sát giá cả thị trường)
Go to school : đi học/ go to the school : đến trường (ví dụ: để gặp Ngài hiệu trưởng)

10/ Both, all, both, half, double + The + Noun
Notes:
All men must die (everyone)// All the men in this town are very lazy
11/ Use "the" for Musical Instruments
The guitar (I could play the guitar when I was 6.),// The piano, The violin
12/ Khi sau danh từ đó có of
The history of England is interesting. //trong khi các môn học không có "the"//
I learn English; He learns history at school.

Bµi tËp m¹o tõ
Fill in the blank with the appropriate article, a, an, or the, or Ø if no article is needed.
1. I want ............................ apple from that basket. .................... apple a day keeps the doctor away.
2. ............................ church on the corner is progressive.
3. Miss Linh speaks ............................ Chinese. She likes to play ............................ volleyball.
4. I borrowed ............................ pencil from your pile of pencils and pens.
5. One of ………………. students said, " ............................ professor is late today."
6. I bought ............................ umbrella to go out in the rain.
7. My daughter is learning to play ............................ violin at her school.
8. Please give me ............................ cake that is on ………. counter.
9. I lived on ............................ Main Street when I first came to town.
10. Albany is the capital of ............................ New York State.
11. My husband's family speaks ............................ Polish.
12. ........................... boy in the corner is my friend.
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13. Our neighbors have ............................ cat and ............................ dog.
14. What ............................ nice armchair!
15. Where is ............................ nearest police station?
16. What is ............................ cost of ............................ goods you buy?
17. There is ............................ bakery next to ............................ post office.
18. Can you tell me ............................ way to ............................ hotel please?

Insert a, an or the if necessary.
1. There was . . . knock on . . . door. I opened it and found . . . small dark man in . . . blue
overcoat and . . . woollen cap.
2. He said he was . . . employee of . . . gas company and had come to read . . . meter.
3. But I had . . . suspicion that he wasn't speaking . . . truth because . . . meter readers usually wear . . . peaked
caps.
4 .However, I took him to . . . meter, which is in . . . dark corner under . . . stairs
(. . . meters are usually in . . . dark corners under . . . stairs).
5. I asked if he had . . . torch; he said he disliked torches and always read . . . meters by . . .
light of . . . match.
6. I remarked that if there was . . . leak in . . . gaspipe there might be . . . explosion while
he was reading . . . meter.
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7. He said, 'As . . . matter of . . . fact, there was . . . explosion in . . . last house I visited;and Mr Smith, . . .
owner of . . . house, was burnt in . . . face.'
8. 'Mr Smith was holding . . . lighted match at . . . time of . . . explosion.'
9. To prevent . . . possible repetition of this accident, I lent him . . . torch.
10. He switched on . . . torch, read . . . meter and wrote . . . reading down on . . . back of . .. envelope.
11. I said in . . . surprise that . . . meter readers usually put . . . readings down in . . . book.
12. He said that he had had . . . book but that it had been burnt in . . . fire in . . . Mr Smith's house.
13. By this time I had come to . . . conclusion that he wasn't . . . genuine meter reader; and. . . moment he
left . . . house I rang . . . police.
14. Are John and Mary . . . cousins? ~No, they aren't . . . cousins; they are . . . brother and . . . sister.
15. . . . fog was so thick that we couldn't see . . . side of . . . road. We followed . . . car in
front of us and hoped that we were going . . . right way.
16. I can't remember . . . exact date of . . . storm, but I know it was . . . Sunday because
everybody was at . . . church. On . . . Monday . . . post didn't come because . . . roads were blocked by . . .
fallen trees.
17. Peter thinks that this is quite . . . cheap restaurant.
18. There's been . . . murder here. ~Where's . . . body?~There isn't . . . body. ~Then how do you know there's

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34. One morning she rang her daughter in . . . triumph. 1 found . . . burglar under . . . bed .. . last night,' she
said, 'and he was quite . . . young man.'
35 . . . apples are sold by . . . pound. These are forty pence . . . pound.
36. It was . . . windy morning but they hired . . . boat and went for . . . sail along . . .coast. In . . -
afternoon . . . wind increased and they soon found themselves in . . .difficulties.