Hi, she told me " i met professor shah at _ University". which article is applicable before "University" here? and why? options are 1)a Some particular university that has not yet been mentioned in the

No there is no rule.The two words have the same meaning, 'whilst' is the older version (some dictionaries list it as obsolete) and it usually appears only in formal or poetic writing. If you stick to 'while' you won't ever

What is the rule for the use of "a or an" when using this sentence: My father is "a/an" M.D. I never know what to use because M is not a vowel but it sounds like one. I use "an" because it sounds better to me, to my

Hi, 1) In what contexts do you expect to see the word "categorical"? For many outer-city and middle-class speakers, a raised vowel is already categorical in all environments. Does it mean:- 2) Many outer-city and middle-class

"Facetious" has all the vowels once in alphabetical order, and "subcontinental" has them all in reverse alphabetical order.

Hi, While editing, I came across a sentence that said An year... As per my knowledge an year is an incorrect usage but year has a vowel sound that made me more confused. Can anyone tel what is the correct usage or are both the usages correct?

Thanks, GG, but how about this sentence: I'd like to get myself a wife...or girlfriend. Can we do away with the article 'a' in this case? How about cases where there's vowel like this: I'd like to get her a car...or an

The "uh" sound is called the schwa sound, and is found in the unstressed syllables of words. The spelling can be almost any vowel letter. The schwa sound extends to sentences - the vowels in the articles "the" and "a"

Hi Kooyeen, I think I know what you mean and I am also interested in the answer. Are you referring to the staircase intonation mentioned in Ann Cook's AAT? My mother tongue is a tonal langauge (a different tone stands for a different word) and

You need to learn to speak from scratch, as if you were a child. That means you should start to learn the vowels and the consonants, then put them together to create phonemes, then connect them to form words, then learn to join words and say short