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<p class="purpose">To inflect "a" into "an", and so forth.</p>
<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP1" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>&#167;1. </b>Here we take text such as "UNESCO document" and put an article in front, to
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<span class="identifier-syntax">match_avinue</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="identifier-syntax">indef_trie</span><span class="plain-syntax"> = </span><span class="identifier-syntax">NULL</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
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<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">text_stream</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="identifier-syntax">initial_text</span><span class="plain-syntax">, </span><span class="identifier-syntax">NATURAL_LANGUAGE_WORDS_TYPE</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="identifier-syntax">nl</span><span class="plain-syntax">) {</span>
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<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">PreformUtilities::define_trie</span><span class="plain-syntax">(</span>
<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="function-syntax">&lt;singular-noun-to-its-indefinite-article&gt;</span><span class="plain-syntax">, </span><span class="identifier-syntax">TRIE_START</span><span class="plain-syntax">,</span>
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<span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">wchar_t</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="identifier-syntax">result</span><span class="plain-syntax"> = </span><span class="identifier-syntax">Tries::search_avinue</span><span class="plain-syntax">(</span><span class="identifier-syntax">indef_trie</span><span class="plain-syntax">, </span><span class="identifier-syntax">initial_text</span><span class="plain-syntax">);</span>
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