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Just so you know; I am American and my english is obviously going to differ somewhat from the British version. My question regards the use of "A" and "AN". My education has taught me "A" precedes words beginning with consonant sounds such as, "a car" or "a house". "AN" precedes words...

Hi MusesunIt depends on the stress. Doubling occurs if there is one vowel between two consonants and the stress is on that syllable:forgettinglettingoccurredIn interpret the stress is on the second syllable: to prevent a smiley from appearing!

With regard to “figured out” which Kaufmann uses twice in that passage, - well, “figured out” and “figures out.” Another translator uses the word “divined” (gottlich ) instead of “ figured out” and yet another uses the word “grasped” (griff). I don’t know the original German word Nietzsche...

In pural form it is written as Blackberries If there is a consonant before y, in plural it turns into ie, but if there is a vowel before y, in plural it stays the same. If you have any other queries please feel free to ask me Best regards,Khanum Khatun

Guest wrote:Use "a" if the next word begins with a consonant, and "an" if the next word begins with a vowel. A tiger, an angel, a book, etc. A historical character. This is not completely correct. The indefinite article a is used when the following word starts with a consonant sound The...

Hi, Point well taken. All I can do is throw myself on the mercy of the APOSTROPHE PROTECTION SOCIETY and have my counsel enter a plea in mitigation: My Lords, My client deeply regrets 'shooting from the hip' in this matter. As regards the rude insertion of an apostrophe, he acknowledges the...

The 'phonetic symbol' I used above is in fact the 'phonetic pattern' not the syllable. I am going to explain this term. Why I don't use 'syllable. The question must start from why the ancient people invent this unit? It is a unit irrigular in time. 'a' is a syllable. 'sprint' is also a syllable....