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Correct english please..an high-tech or a high-tech?

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Correct english please..an high-tech or a high-tech?

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  1. A high-tech.

    'An' normally only comes before words that start with vowels, such as "An Elephant" or "An Orange".

    Guys be nice, for all you know she could be foreign and not know english very well!


  2. Pay no attention to the trolls who mock you for having asked this question!  Like many other aspects of English, it's not as straightforward as it seems - and I bet that they're not as smart as they like to think they are.

    Instances when it is correct to use "an" as the indefinite article before an adjective or noun that begins with "h" are essentially in two categories:

    1) Where the "h" is silent (e.g. "an honourable man")

    2) Where the stress in the "h" word is not on the first syllable (e.g. "an historic victory" or "an horrendous grammatical error")

    (The latter case is more a question of usage than of hard and fast grammar, but I think most people would agree that the elision makes the phrase easier and less clumsy to pronounce.)

    In all other cases one should use "a".  Hence, the term "high tech" would take "a" as its article - whereas the plant "hydrangea" should probably take "an".

  3. if the letter starting the word is a vowel (a e i o u) then it is always an. e.g. an elephant, an orange etc... if the letter of the word starts with a consonant (b c d f g etc) then it is always a. e.g. a dog, a house etc.

  4. It can sometimes be difficult, I remember my teacher a few weeks ago - he has a yorkshire accent and said "An histogram" For those that dont know it sounds a but like "An 'istogram"

    It sounded ocay to him, I had to tell him it was "A histogram"

    So yes - a high tech - no vowels

  5. Vowels a e i o u,  a high tech.

  6. A

  7. i believe it is 'a'

    but i see why you might think otherwise because historic is 'an'

    like 'an historic dockyard'

  8. is this question serious? are you cliniclly retarded? you only ever use "an" when it is followed by a vowel - jeez we learnt that in year 4 for god sake.

  9. A high tech.

  10. a high-tech

  11. Normally If the word starts with a vowel then it's 'An' for example 'An apple' or if it starts with a consonant then it's 'A' for example 'A grape'.

    Words that start with an 'H' are often the exception to this rule.

    In correct English it's 'An' however in spoken regular English it is 'A'.

  12. The first sound pronounced in "high" is a consonant, not a vowel - therefore it's "a high-tech".

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