Grammar Thoughts
Thursday, 7 March 2013
An US soldier?
ChannelNewsAsia - 3 March 2013
The article
An
before
US
is wrong. The correct article is
A
, because the initial sound in
US
is the consonant "j".
The trick is to remember that the indefinite article rule applies to sounds, not letters. So we say
an umbrella
, but
a unicorn
.
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