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Jairo Pérez
Insegnante professionistaSe escribe "a house" o "an house"
Antes de u es a o an como an umbrella o a university ¿cual es la regla?
27 mag 2010 23:47
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Th reason why it is 'an hour' but 'a house' is that the 'h' is preceded by 'an' and treated like the vowels 'a, e, i, o,u ' in case it is not pronounced such as in the word 'hour' .It sounds like 'our' then.
In case the 'h' is pronounced as in 'house', the word is preceded by 'a' ,because it starts phonetically as well with a consonant.
So the choice between the indefinite articles 'a' and 'an' in the case of preceding a word starting with the consonant 'h' depends on the pronunciation of 'h'.
28 maggio 2010
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H is confusing in English: we have a Germanic tradition which says it must be pronounced, and a Latin(French) tradition which says it must be silent.
Ignore any written rules about this. You use "an" when the next *sound* is a vowel. It's smoother to pronounce that way.
So: a horse, a house, a hair - the H is pronounced here.
But: an hour, an honour, an heir - the H is silent.
Same with words beginning with U. If it's a basic vowel "uh" such as umbrella, unusual, up-side, then "an" applies. If there's a "yuu" sound as in university, utopia, Uruguayan, use "a".
28 maggio 2010
Holajjj
8 agosto 2020
se escribe a house es igual una casa
3 ottobre 2010
Si,estoy de acuerdo con Martin ,it's "a house .Me gustaría añadir lo siguiente:when u say "una hora",it's "an hour "in English .
28 maggio 2010
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Jairo Pérez
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Inglese, Russo, Spagnolo
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese, Russo
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