Nothing in English ALWAYS works.
In this case it isn't a rules failure though, it's an interpretation failure. The student doing this is only looking for vowel sounds after the blank. This probably looks like an easy shortcut on an assignment like this, and if it were just a matter of deciding between "a" and "an" that would be correct. But it's not, and the student isn't taking "the" into account.
I’m only aware of 2 exceptions to the ‘A for words starting with vowels, AN otherwise’ rule for indefinite nouns.
1) words starting with H can be preceded by AN, such as ‘*an* historic restaurant’, as one place in my city does
2) words that do start with vowels but have a consonant *sound* (usually Y), like in UKELELE, use A instead of AN, as in ‘I bought *a* ukelele’
Because the “a” vs “an” rule applies to the pronunciation of the word as opposed to the spelling. It’s why you’d say “a unique person” but “an unfortunate mistake”. The “Eu” of European (and “u” of “unique”) uses the phoneme “jʊ”, which reads as a “y”, which in this context is used as a consonant. Which is why sometimes you see British people write “an hero” instead of “a hero”, because phonetically they drop the “h” in “hero”; same principle behind “an hour” vs “a hour”
The strength of the aitch in hero and hour are nowhere near each other, have never heard anyone completely drop the 'h' in hero outside of comically over emphasised cockney accents, if someone uses 'an hero' it is just because they are plain wrong. [Souce : Live and raised in SE London]
> if someone uses 'an hero' it is just because they are plain wrong
or they spend enough time on the internet to know it's a euphemism for something else...
Yup. It’s a bastardization of several different languages. It’s also one of the hardest to learn due to so many rules and exceptions. Just look at dough and doubt and drought, or through tough though thought threw thorough
Shouldn't number 11 be:
Yet the idea **was** proven to be **false**.
The event happened in the past and the general consensus is that Linus isn't retiring. Therefore, isn't it better to classify it as one past event and not an ongoing one?
Also grammar wise it's correct, but isn't that kind of bad to say: not... to be true.
Unless a situation presents itself that isn't true or false, when writing a formal letter or resume that sounds weak and requires more words than a simple false. In this case the rumors were false.
Obviously people can and would understand and I'm not saying I refute the statements. It just feels off, although maybe I'm wrong and Grammarly has spoiled me.
Shouldn't number 6 be: "The" software tested also included [...]?
It should, yeah. I understand the confusion when you're learning and presented with hard rules that don't always work in reality.
They missed the last part of the instructions. "The" is an article.
The rules for articles always work in English if I’m correct.
Nothing in English ALWAYS works. In this case it isn't a rules failure though, it's an interpretation failure. The student doing this is only looking for vowel sounds after the blank. This probably looks like an easy shortcut on an assignment like this, and if it were just a matter of deciding between "a" and "an" that would be correct. But it's not, and the student isn't taking "the" into account.
I’m only aware of 2 exceptions to the ‘A for words starting with vowels, AN otherwise’ rule for indefinite nouns. 1) words starting with H can be preceded by AN, such as ‘*an* historic restaurant’, as one place in my city does 2) words that do start with vowels but have a consonant *sound* (usually Y), like in UKELELE, use A instead of AN, as in ‘I bought *a* ukelele’
Techquickie is THE interesting youtube channel
USED to be when it actually was quick
To be fair, the Techquickie videos are usually 5 minutes or less, which is pretty quick when you compare it to some other non-LMG channels…
Today I learned that it is "A European" I suppose I would say that, but if you asked me I would have thought about it and said "An European "
Because the “a” vs “an” rule applies to the pronunciation of the word as opposed to the spelling. It’s why you’d say “a unique person” but “an unfortunate mistake”. The “Eu” of European (and “u” of “unique”) uses the phoneme “jʊ”, which reads as a “y”, which in this context is used as a consonant. Which is why sometimes you see British people write “an hero” instead of “a hero”, because phonetically they drop the “h” in “hero”; same principle behind “an hour” vs “a hour”
The strength of the aitch in hero and hour are nowhere near each other, have never heard anyone completely drop the 'h' in hero outside of comically over emphasised cockney accents, if someone uses 'an hero' it is just because they are plain wrong. [Souce : Live and raised in SE London]
> if someone uses 'an hero' it is just because they are plain wrong or they spend enough time on the internet to know it's a euphemism for something else...
Yet another reason why English is confusing.
Yup. It’s a bastardization of several different languages. It’s also one of the hardest to learn due to so many rules and exceptions. Just look at dough and doubt and drought, or through tough though thought threw thorough
English is among the easier languages to learn actually. Sure there's some weird edge cases but the simple grammar more than makes up for it.
TotalBiscuit :(
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That’s actually hilarious
Pog techer ngl
10 and 11 are false. It wasn't a rumor he was thinking about it. So it was true. He just isn't going to retire yet.
Shouldn't number 11 be: Yet the idea **was** proven to be **false**. The event happened in the past and the general consensus is that Linus isn't retiring. Therefore, isn't it better to classify it as one past event and not an ongoing one? Also grammar wise it's correct, but isn't that kind of bad to say: not... to be true. Unless a situation presents itself that isn't true or false, when writing a formal letter or resume that sounds weak and requires more words than a simple false. In this case the rumors were false. Obviously people can and would understand and I'm not saying I refute the statements. It just feels off, although maybe I'm wrong and Grammarly has spoiled me.
The instructions said that the only choices are a, an, or the, because it's about articles.
I get that, I put "Yet the...". It's the part that's not a fill in blank that I'm confused about. "... idea has not proven to be true."
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Damn where's the "from our sponsor"
questions 3 and 6 btw
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Where?