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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork Article selection and use is one of the most difficult areas of English to master. Much of it follows rules and makes sense. Some of it is idiomatic and must just be learned. |
Yes, I feel that the use (and non-use) of the article is THE most difficult aspect of English grammar for me.
It's partly because my native language Japanese doesn't have the grammatical element of the article.
But I think that even when two languages use the article, their ways of using it is often different, because the cognitive rationale behind its use is specific to the languages and you often have to learn each specific cases of the article use.