Dear Friends, I wonder if I need the indefinite article in the following: This language school attracts people with the promise of a high exam pass rate. ? Thank you. Palinkasocsi

Actually, we are conditioned to believe that the indefinite article "a, an" is used to talk about a general situation and people are in a muddle when someone uses it for a specific condition. First, we should understand that language is

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use the indefinite article "a" before words beginning with a consonant and "an" before words beginning with a vowel or a diphthong. And the sound "y" ( or / j /

It's not good; and they forgot the indefinite articles, too, which is always a sign of poor English. It's a sign of poor English on hearing someone say he went to university, or talks about being in hospital? If so, it's a damn good

Like in "firm ABCD outsourced American programmer for Indian programmer". Thank you. It's not good; and they forgot the indefinite articles, too, which is always a sign of poor English. It's a sign of poor English on hearing

: So how does the rule on "u" and "a" or "an" work (or all the vowels for that matter)? Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced