Articles, quantifiers and numbers

• Put articles before the main noun.

a city, the city

• Indefinite articles (a, an) go with singular countable nouns to show general meaning.
• The definite article (the) goes with:

specific nouns

ordinal numbers – the sixth

‘same’ – the same number

superlatives – the fastest car

• Put quantifiers before the article:

All the money

Other quantifiers are: some, few, lot, many.

• Put numbers after articles.

the two books on the shelf