Collins COBUILD English Guides provide extensive information on specific areas of today’s English, using the evidence from The Bank of English to select what is really important.
This book is suitable for upper-intermediate and advanced students and teachers of English. It focuses on the most frequent words in English: the definite article the and the indefinite article a or an.
Articles are a recognized problem area for learners of English and this book provides comprehensive treatment of them It describes the different uses of articles, and explains those situations in which no article is used.








