Do you use a or an before the word opossum?
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my experience would tell me to use "an" because opossum starts with a vowel - I prounounce it with the "o"\n\nthe "o" is silent in some accents, I think it depends where you are from, what your accent is, and how you pronounce words :-)
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proper grammar first please
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a hotel. "h" is not a noun. The only time you use "an" is when it comes before a noun or a word that sounds like a noun. For example: an hour. :) hope this helps!!
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Well I think its pretty self-explanatory. It says A equals to something, so I would go with A.
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Your health?\n\n(And it's "you're a smoker", using the contraction for "you are" -  not "your a smoker", using the possessive form of "you")
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1. u put the semicolons after Oregon and California\n2. it's they're instead of their and its Scobee's an also their's should be theirs\n3. Quotation before Upon and after the ?\n4. " after the period is all i could see wrong
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No.  It should read, "Please go to the concert with Tammy and me."\n\nIf you remove "Tammy and" from the sentence, it should  still make sense.  You wouldn't say, "Please go to the concert with I."\n\nYou could say, "Tammy and I would like you to go to the concert with us."  Again, if you remove "Tammy and" from the sentence, it still makes sense.\n\nThe rule: Use "me" when you're the object, and "I" when you're the subject.
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A comma.\n\nExample:\n\n(The tribe attacked savagly), and (we ran) \n\n*the parentacies denote where each independent clause is.
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The GENERAL rule is that "an" is used before words in which the first SOUND (not letter) is a vowel sound.  But even in dialects which pronounce the opening "h", it may be considered permissible to use "an" before "historic(al)"   There are good historical and phonological reasons for this.\n\nBASIC explanation why "an" may appear before a word beginning with /h/:\n\n1) the initial /h/ IS not pronounced (so that the first sound spoken is a vowel sound):\n*generally in "hours" hono(u)r"\n*American English - "herb"\n*some dialects "humble", "hotel"\n\n2) history - that is, the /h/ USED to be silent:\nthere are a number of words whose initial /h/ was originally not pronounced, esp. those derived from (Old) French, which did not pronounce it (sometimes did not even spell it)\nSome of these (examples listed in #1) STILL do not pronounce the /h/ in many or all English dialects. Others that have added a pronounced /h/ may still be treated as if they did not have it -- 'historic(al)' is perhaps the best example of this\n\nBUT this is not enough -- those who say "an historic(al) event" (pronouncing the /h/) ALSO usually say "a history"!\nSo, there's one other very important factor, which is:\n\n3) The syllable starting with /h/ LACKS an ACCENT\n--Specifically, if the SECOND syllable is accented, the initial /h/ is WEAKER, perhaps only very slightly pronounced (It seems especially weak if the following vowel is formed in the front of the mouth -- a, i, e (as opposed to vowels made further back -- o, u)\n\nSo, if the first syllable HAS an accent (especially the MAIN accent of the word) it is preceded by "a" --thus we say "A HISTORY" (unless, of course, you're Cockney)\n\nTo get the sense of how this works, just try saying the word "historic" all by itself. You may notice that you scarcely pronounce the /h/. Even if you do, it may feel like it takes extra energy do so (whereas when you say "history" the 'energy' is already supplied by accenting the syllable)\n\n[Some have said 'accented' or 'unaccented', but this is not quite correct. When the SECOND syllable is accented, the first syllable has the LEAST accent; if a LATER syllable has the primary accent the first syllable may still have a SECONDARY accent, and the 'rule' just described does not apply. Examples: 'hospitality' 'hippopotamus']\n\nIn fact, in expressions like "an historic..." many find that the inclusion of the /n/ can actually make the words easier to pronounce (though in that case the /h/ is usually only VERY slightly pronounced).\n\nOther examples where "an" may be found (all of which have an accent on the second syllable): "an hereditary title" [vs. "a HERitage], "an habitual liar" [vs. "a HA-bit"], cf. "an hysterical child"\n\nNow if you were to try some of these expressions in a search engine you would likely find that "an historic" and "an historical" are much more common (in proportion to "a historic" "a historical") than these other examples. That leads to the FINAL(?) factor that affects pronunciation.\n\n4) HABIT! That is, we're USED to hearing it that way, and so it just seems right, even if it does not follow the "rules" we may generally us for such cases.\n\nThus, the reason 'historic' and 'historical' are far more likely to be preceded by "an" than other words that might "qualify" is that they are more COMMON words or expressions. People are used to hearing them this way. This is hardly unusual. In any language the LESS common a word is in everyday speech the MORE likely it is speakers apply the "general rules" to that word. Thus, irregular verbs in a language [forms of to be, come,
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phonetic: mom a see ta\nor\nma =>
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Neither is correct grammar. You could say:\n\nMy new website is a.b.com.\n\nIf you really want to keep your wording, you could probably do it like this:\n\nThis is my new website 'a.b.com'. or\nThis is my new website: a.b.com.
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that was a ques or a ans?//
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i have an apple & someone else has an apple.. so i take one from some(one) & now i have 2... ?\n\nlol, so are you talking about letters?\nfor example remove a letter from "one" & now you're left with two letters (on, oe, ne)
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nueve y media\n\nAre we helping with your homework?\n\nIT IS NOT PRONOUNCED WITH A B!
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I think  there is a rule about the a/an coming right before the h where you use the second letter. If the second letter is a vowel, than you use 'an', otherwise, an 'a'.
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either is acceptable..\n\nthough, if you would be using the sentence in theme papers.. or any formal writing..\n\nyou should use the second..\n\nthis is for the reason that when a number is present in a sentence..\n\nit is only appropriate that you affix the word "for"..\n\nexample...\n\nwe were trekking for four days (it wouldn't seem formal if you use "we were trekking four days")
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None of them.  \n\nA, C, and D are grammatically incorrect.\n\nB is wrong because the pronoun is not capitalized correctly.