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8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun. The w is not a vowel sound even though the o in o-n-e is a vowel. So a must be used...

Nestor_fes wrote: 8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation). Although 'one' begins with a vowel, it is pronounced with the sound of a consonant - 'w'. 9. Miss Justine Fair listened to the two Chilean students...

Hello!! well.. this is my 1st time here, I had no idea that there were forums like this forum!So I joined and I have some questions.. I need them for my assignment!8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) 9....

Hello to everyone! I am the new one on the list and not sure are you going to be interested on the subject of the origin of the word "elephant" and the hypothesis that all Indoeuropean languages were based on the "formula" SUR-BEL+UM. Cordially, Dusan Vukotic "All Indo-European languages...

Hope, To tell you the truth, none of your example sentences are vey well written. tenacious winter: this is akward tenacious of power: not grammatical tenacious of life: not grammtical From Cambridge: tenacious Show phonetics adjective holding tightly onto something, or...

First of all, here is the definition from the Cambridge dictionary on emphatic and emphasize just to give you a better feel. emphatic Show phonetics adjective done or said in a strong way and without any doubt: Poland reached the final of the championship yesterday with an emphatic...

"Coat check is available on the basement level at a charge of $10.00 per hour (at a 4 hour minimum) for each coat check attendant requested. Renters, however, may provide their own personnel at no cost." It means coat-check or coat checking is available as part of deal to rent the facility....

Cambridge lists, among others the following two meanings for adopt. adopt (START) Show phonetics verb to accept or start to use something new: I think it's time to adopt a different strategy in my dealings with him. The new tax would force companies to adopt energy-saving...

From Cambridge...hope it helps. syntax Show phonetics noun the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence syntactic Show phonetics adjective SPECIALIZED syntactically Show phonetics adverb...

Maripinky, The correct usage is: A pay raise The sunrise. from Cambridge: raise (INCREASE) Show phonetics verb to cause something to increase or become bigger, better, higher, etc: The government plan to raise taxes. I had to raise my voice (= speak more loudly) to make myself...