Kai,
Tell your teacher that a word begining with a vowel SOUND, takes "an".
Words begining with a consonant sound take the article "a".
Just a basic english grammer rule that's been around for many, many
years. Most of us OF's still remember when grammer was taught by
teachers who had an inkling of what they were doing.
It sounds like your teacher doesn't
In other words, you are right - teach is wrong
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:49:54 -0500 "Kai Radicke" <mowogmg@pil.net>
writes:
>OK, I have a really stupid question...
>
>my English teacher was having a cow (or a Triumph) about me using "an
>MG"
>in a sentence I wrote. I don't think I have ever seen "a MG" in my
>life,
>it just sounds dumb. My teacher does have a point, but anyone know
>why we
>do this?
>
>ex:
>
>a Morris Minor
>an MGB
>
>now say it in a sentence:
>
>I have a Morris Minor.
>I have an Morris Minor.
>
>I have an MGB.
>I have a MGB.
>
>Am I going insane? Or do I just need a life ;-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kai
>
>Kai Radicke -- mowogmg@pil.net, 1966 MGB @ http://www.pil.net/~mowogmg
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