A or An?

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I chose an because in english an-------------a,o,u,i,y,e
a-------------with another letters


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It's the sound that matters:
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an umbrella
a European



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I love this forum! I am tutoring English in Colombia...and...I never heard such things as "semi-vowels" in my education!
Thanks for these responses/clarifications!
 
Usually a u pronounced as if f the word begins with a y (a semivowel), usual, union, university (mostly borrowed from Latin or French) it is treatzed as if it were a consonant: hence a university (but sometimes thee (as if it were a vowel) university.

Words (mostly form the Germanic side of the language) that have the sharp u as in under, underwear, ulcer, udder ugliness are treated like a vowel.
 
a Universal RL
U is not a vowel here. It's a consonant
 
sophie hannon said:
so u is an exception sometimes?
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No, u is not an exception to anything. We use an in front of words that start with a vowel sound. Examples:
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an umbrella
an ostrich
an apple

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We use a in front of words that start with a consonant sound (the letter y being considered a consonant). Examples:
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a urinal
a yew tree
a youngster



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Uniform Resource Locator = URL

uniform - pronunciation begins with "yu-". That's why, the answer is "a".
 
URL = "Uniform Resource Locator" A chose "A" for this question. E.g: "a university"
 
53.80% chose "an"?
Holly ****.

Of course A URL is correct.

Guys, you spell
"A [you-r-l]" (U=you)
"A Uniform Resource Locator", because you spell [you-niform]

Even the whole word would need an "a", it does not matter:
UFO - Unidentified flying object.
If you write the whole name, then you need the "an".
This is "an Unidentified flying object", because the U is a spoken vowel.
If you use the short version, you must not use the "an".
This is "a UFO", because you spell [you-fo].

Never care about the whole version of a word, only care if the letter (right after the a/an) is a spoken vowel.

I hope this was understandable...

Tome comes in an hour.
This is a US server.
I have an ultimate weapon.
Usually I use an nvidia graphics card.
I bought a Rocket Launcher yesterday.
I bought an RL yesterday.

Cheers!
 
Maybe you could read some posts...
I'll give you some advice:
Right above your question...
 
A E I O U
If a word begin with one of them,
An is right I think.
 
It is an interesting question: an should precede vowels, a consonants, (and the silent "h"); I think an becomes a incorrectly by common usage. I believe that it should be an URL but through convention it is a URL. It could be down to URL being an acronym, an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word. I would suggest that if you were marked wrong for using either, you could argue your case. I think a URL is more common, but I'm not convinced this is correct.
 
SteveWei said:
A E I O U
If a word begins with one of them,
an is right I think.
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I must disappoint you.

I've found an ultimate answer.
In this case you will not spell [yaltimate].
A universe without women will never exist.
In this case you will spell [youniverse]

It's doesn't matter what kind of letter it is, the only thing that matters is if it's a spoken vowel.

Just a read a bit more, this thread contains plenty of useful information :up:

Cheers!
 
U is the vowel therefore an URL. suits more...............
 
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