Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! And I really like your blog … keep up the good work. Thanks Rohit. Pronouncing a as a schwa can diminish the sound of the schwa and melt into the vowel. Glad I found this blog through Yaro. Become a hero. Hero does not begin with a vowel sound; it begins with the consonant sound for H. The same should apply for hotel too.
That cannot be correct. It depends on how it pronounced. It makes all the difference. It is very clear explaination. It not depends on vowels or consonants but also pronunciation.
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I want to enhance my knowledge in different fields of work. I want to meet different people with different walks of life. Therefore, according to the rules applying to noncount nouns, the word water would use no article or the , but not a. Following are the three specific rules which explain the use of definite and indefinite articles.
Rule 1 - Specific identity not known : Use the indefinite article a or an only with a singular count noun whose specific identity is not known to the reader. Use a before nouns that begin with a consonant sound, and use an before nouns that begin with a vowel sound.
I think an animal is in the garage That man is a scoundrel. We are looking for an apartment. Rule 2 - Specific identity known : Use the definite article the with any noun whether singular or plural, count or noncount when the specific identity of the noun is known to the reader, as in the following situations:.
I ate an apple yesterday. The apple was juicy and delicious. The boy sitting next to me raised his hand. Thank you for the advice you gave me. Rule 3 - All things or things in general : Use no article with plural count nouns or any noncount nouns used to mean all or in general.
Trees are beautiful in the fall. All trees are beautiful in the fall. He was asking for advice. He was asking for advice in general. I do not like coffee. I do not like all coffee in general. Additional Information Regarding the Use of Articles. My cousin was seeking some advice from a counselor not advice in general or advice about everything, but a limited amount of advice. I would love some coffee right now not coffee in general, but a limited amount of coffee.
We might get rain tomorrow. Elder , eldest or older , oldest? End or finish? Especially or specially? Except or except for?
Expect , hope or wait? Experience or experiment? Fall or fall down? Far or a long way? Farther , farthest or further , furthest? Fast , quick or quickly? Fell or felt? Female or feminine ; male or masculine? Finally , at last , lastly or in the end?
First , firstly or at first? Fit or suit? Following or the following? For or since? Forget or leave? Full or filled? Fun or funny?
Get or go? Grateful or thankful? Hear or listen to? High or tall? Historic or historical? House or home? How is …?
If or when? If or whether? Ill or sick? Imply or infer? In the way or on the way? Late or lately? Lay or lie? Lend or borrow? Less or fewer? Look at , see or watch? Low or short? Man , mankind or people? Maybe or may be? Maybe or perhaps? Nearest or next?
Never or not … ever? Nice or sympathetic? No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened?
Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another? Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people? Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy? Price or prize? Principal or principle? Quiet or quite? Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly?
Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk?
Such or so? Towards or toward? Wait or wait for? Wake , wake up or awaken? Worth or worthwhile? Noun phrases: dependent words Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: uses Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: two noun phrases together. Pronouns: possessive my , mine , your , yours , etc.
Pronouns: reflexive myself , themselves , etc. Pronouns: indefinite - body , - one , - thing , - where Pronouns: one , you , we , they Relative pronouns Questions: interrogative pronouns what , who Someone , somebody , something , somewhere That. Dates Measurements Number Time. Geographical places Names and titles: addressing people Nationalities, languages, countries and regions Place names.
Reported speech Reported speech: direct speech Reported speech: indirect speech. British and American English Dialect Double negatives and usage Formal and informal language Newspaper headlines Register Slang Standard and non-standard language Swearing and taboo expressions. Past simple I worked Past continuous I was working Past continuous or past simple? Past simple or present perfect? Used to Past perfect simple I had worked Past perfect continuous I had been working Past perfect simple or past perfect continuous?
Past perfect simple or past simple? Past verb forms referring to the present Past: typical errors. Present continuous I am working Present perfect continuous I have been working Present perfect simple I have worked Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous? Present perfect: typical errors Present simple I work Present simple or present continuous? Present: typical errors Present verb forms referring to the past.
Finite and non-finite verbs Imperative clauses Be quiet! Infinitives with and without to Infinitive: active or passive? Perfect infinitive with to to have worked Verbs: basic forms Verbs: formation.
Hate , like , love and prefer Hear , see , etc. Get passive Have something done Passive: forms Passives with and without an agent Passive: uses Passive: other forms Passive: typical errors. Conditionals Conditionals: if Conditionals: other expressions unless, should, as long as Conditionals: typical errors If only In case of Suppose , supposing and what if Wish.
Word classes and phrase classes Word formation Prefixes Suffixes Compounds Abbreviations, initials and acronyms -ish and -y Diminutives - let , - y and mini- Hyphens. Word order and focus Word order: structures Cleft sentences It was in June we got married.
Fronting Inversion No sooner Not only … but also. Relative clauses Relative clauses referring to a whole sentence Relative clauses: defining and non-defining Relative clauses: typical errors. Neither, neither … nor and not … either Not. Questions: alternative questions Is it black or grey?
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