curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-determiners-and-advanced-use-of-articles/6810db4d39994d22c366a63e.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
That's BLANK.
a good point
These three words mean a valid idea or opinion.
The article a is used before singular countable nouns when you talk about something in a general or non-specific way.
In That's a good point, point is a singular countable noun. Since it's not a specific point Jake has talked about before, he uses the article a to introduce it.
This rule also applies to similar phrases like:
That's a good idea.
That's a nice thing to say.
In each case, you are mentioning one general example of an idea, thing, or point - not a specific one, so you use a instead of the.
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