Articles, determiners, and quantifiers are those little words that precede and modify nouns: (the teacher, a college, a bit of honey, an apple) Sometimes these words will tell the reader or listener whether we're referring to a specific or general thing (the...
An article is not a word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. Articles specify the grammatical definiteness of the noun, in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope. The...