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An is the indefinite article. It is used before words beginning with a vowel sound, for example an apple, an elder, an hour, another. It is shortened to a before words beginning with a consonant sound, for example a bat, a cat, a union, a European.

Some words beginning with h may take the full form anwhen accented on the second or third syllable. For example we say a history but we may say an historian.

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before a word beginning with a vowel, a-e-i-o-u

AnswerUSUALLY, but not always, before a Vowel. Such as A Human Being, but An Explorer.

A Tree but An Apple

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You use an 'a' in front of words without a vowel; for example:

A Car, A Drawer, A Sidewalk.

You use 'an' in front of words with a vowel; for example:

An Answer, An Idiot, An Elephant.

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