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#373831 Sat, 02 Jun 07 01:28 AM

My daughter attends a bilingual school in Austria and has been taught today that " the " should be defined as adjective not as definite article.Some parentsfound that rather irritating. I found a single homepage where "the" is regarded as an adjective, no dictionary etc.to the contrary I even spotted comments on "the" as an adjective not being correct etc.

Cold you please help?

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Yankee

#373877 Sat, 02 Jun 07 07:19 AM

The words a, an and the are used similarly to adjectives in that they modify nouns. Articles are generally categorized as determiners, so I've never really considered articles to be adjectives. According to Wikipedia, articles used to be considered adjectives though.
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Here is another website with relevant information:
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The website above says "Basically, an article is an adjective." I agree with that, but as I see it, the word "basically" is significant. It qualifies the statement and changes the meaning just enough that it means something akin to "Articles are almost adjectives."
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