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Ozarks at Large Stories

Small Words, Big Rules

KUAF | By Person: Kyle Kellams

Published June 13, 2017 at 12:00 PM CDT

Articles (a, an, the) are among the smallest words. But our Militant Grammarian explains they bring many rules to our speech.

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