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प्रश्न
Sing and recite one of the famous folk songs given below.
There is a mountain for away.
And on the mountain stands a tree.
And on the tree, there is a branch.
And on the branch, there is a nest.
And in the nest, there is an egg.
And in the egg, there is a bird
One day the bird will fly.
One day we will be free.
Discuss with your teacher and classmates regarding the changes seen in the underlined words. Find the reasons behind the changes.
- a mountain – the mountain
- a tree – the tree
- a branch – the branch
- a nest – the nest
- an egg – the egg
- a bird – the bird.
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उत्तर
In the above poem, each of these words is preceded, once by a definite article and later by an indefinite article. Each of the nouns given above is referred to as an uncountable arbitrary thing that turns into a specific countable noun in the next line. For example, the poet talks about a non-specific mountain from far away in the first line but when a tree is introduced in the second line it refers to that particular mountain. In any sentence, the noun in question determines the use of articles.
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