Hello paukel, and welcome to English Forums. If the H is silent, then use "an." The difference is that not everyone pronounces words the same. I do say "an 'istoric" because for me the h is silent. I stopped screaming

Can someone tell me if there has been a change to the rule about the indefinite article before words beginning with "h". When I was at school I was taught that "an" was only used before words in which the "h" was

Hi, In a thread named "question on adjective and one more", AlpheccaStars wrote this as part of his response: call for a combined results and discussion.- -> delete the indefinite article ("a") It is hard to determine if it

Hi, How do we know whether holiday names like "Memorial Day", "Christmas", "New Year's Day" and "Father's Day" can have an article, particularly the indefinite article "a", in front of

Slatted metal is fine. call for a combined results and discussion.- -> delete the indefinite article ("a") It is hard to determine if it this phrase would be correct in a larger context, though.

Hi, How do we know whether holiday names like "Memorial Day", "Christmas", "New Year's Day" and "Father's Day" can have an article, particularly the indefinite article "a", in front of

either "learners of the English language," or "English language learners." Why is article the essential here? There is only one English language. e.g. I'm learning Chinese language these days. Is there any need to specify

Hello all. I have been taught I should use a definite article before ordinals like first, second, etc. Also I can use an indefinite article instead, when the order is not important. Then I saw this sentence. 'She had a crush on me in sixth

a professional background this phrase is NP "a" is indefinite article function as determiner "professional" is an adjective. "background" is the head noun of the NP. Is this right?

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat