Article (grammar)
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An article in grammar is a morpheme, such as an adjective or an affix, indicating whether the noun to which it refers identifies a specific, already explicitly or inherently identified, referent (in which case the article is a definite article) or not (an indefinite article). Not all languages use articles.
In English grammar, the articles include the, a, and an. Articles specify or determine the scope of the described noun. The choice of a or an depends on the phonology of the following word.
In most cases, the specifies a particular one, while a (and an) refer to any one.