Grammar: a, some, the
Elementary level A1)

Using English articles [a(n), some, the] can be quite complicated but there are some basic rules that you can see in the short story below. Very often if you talk about something for the first time you use ‘a’ or ‘some’. After that you can use ‘the’.

Now read the story and notice how the articles are used.

There was a small house next to a wood. The house had a beautiful garden. In the garden were some yellow flowers and an old metal chair. I walked into the garden and picked one of the flowers and went to the chair and sat down. The flower smelled wonderful.