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Grammar Tips: Choosing ‘a’ or ‘an’

by Sheila Wallace on Thursday, December 17, 2009, 10:25 am

in Grammar Tips

Many people think that choosing to use the indefinite article a or an depends on whether the word that follows starts with a consonant or a vowel. However, many people are wrong. It’s not spelling that matters. What counts is the sound of the word that follows. Use a when followed by a consonant sound, [...]

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