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Usage Note: In writing, the form a is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound, regardless of its spelling (a frog, a university). The form an is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound (an orange, an hour). ·An was once a common variant before words beginning with h in which the first syllable was unstressed; thus 18th-century authors wrote either a historical or an historical but a history, not an history. This usage made sense in that people often did not pronounce the initial h in words such as historical and heroic, but by the late 19th century educated speakers usually pronounced initial h, and the practice of writing an before such words began to die out. Nowadays it survives primarily before the word historical. One may also come across it in the phrases an hysterectomy or an hereditary trait. These usages are acceptable in formal writing.
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Originally Posted by ColinRX7' date='Oct 27 2003, 11:37 PM
Usage Note: In writing, the form a is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound, regardless of its spelling (a frog, a university). The form an is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound (an orange, an hour). ·An was once a common variant before words beginning with h in which the first syllable was unstressed; thus 18th-century authors wrote either a historical or an historical but a history, not an history. This usage made sense in that people often did not pronounce the initial h in words such as historical and heroic, but by the late 19th century educated speakers usually pronounced initial h, and the practice of writing an before such words began to die out. Nowadays it survives primarily before the word historical. One may also come across it in the phrases an hysterectomy or an hereditary trait. These usages are acceptable in formal writing.
kevin. |
bobby - rfreeman
anyways...... yeah hes right gramatically which i knew...i just made this post to make fun of him and F = EF |
well..... they say an hour. and that starts with an H. It's anything that has a vowel or a vowel sound to it.
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Originally Posted by FrestyleFC3S' date='Oct 28 2003, 12:39 AM
bobby - rfreeman
anyways...... yeah hes right gramatically which i knew...i just made this post to make fun of him and F = EF you can win, i dont care.... |
Originally Posted by ColinRX7' date='Oct 27 2003, 11:37 PM
Usage Note: In writing, the form a is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound, regardless of its spelling (a frog, a university). The form an is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound (an orange, an hour). ·An was once a common variant before words beginning with h in which the first syllable was unstressed; thus 18th-century authors wrote either a historical or an historical but a history, not an history. This usage made sense in that people often did not pronounce the initial h in words such as historical and heroic, but by the late 19th century educated speakers usually pronounced initial h, and the practice of writing an before such words began to die out. Nowadays it survives primarily before the word historical. One may also come across it in the phrases an hysterectomy or an hereditary trait. These usages are acceptable in formal writing.
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Originally Posted by Apex13B' date='Oct 28 2003, 12:43 AM
oh ****** quit it with that intellicual crap you **** https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683329.gif
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You're just mad cause you got owned by my mad quick "dictionary.com" skills, yo.
https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=a |
Originally Posted by rfreeman27' date='Oct 28 2003, 12:42 AM
[quote name='FrestyleFC3S' date='Oct 28 2003, 12:39 AM'] bobby - rfreeman
anyways...... yeah hes right gramatically which i knew...i just made this post to make fun of him and F = EF you can win, i dont care.... [/quote] just shut it ... you lost fair and square...now give me ur sisters like you promised! |
I told you...you can have my dad!
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