冠词 冠词分为不定冠词、定冠词和零冠词
一、a与 an的用法区别 a 用于辅音前;an 用于元音前
一般说来,元音字母发元音,辅音字母发辅音
(1)Have you ever seen ______ tree as tall as this one
(1985 全国) A
such C
/ 1、拼写以辅音字母开头读音却以元音开头的单词 hour, honest, honor 等单词的拼写虽然以辅音字母h 开头,但其读音却以元音开头,因此,前面要用an
(2)I have been waiting for him for ______hour and a half
(1980 全国) A
whole 2、拼写以元音字母开头读音却以辅音开头的单词 useful, university, usual, united, European, one-eyed, one-way 等单词的拼写虽然以元音字母开头,但其读音却以元音开头,因此,前面要用a
(3)Five years ago her brother was _____university student of _____physics
(1990 上海) A
a; the B
an; the C
an; / D
a; / 3、英文字母前用a 还是用an 的问题 在26 个英文字母中,a, e, i, o, f, h, l, m, n, r, s, x 等12 个字母的读音是以元音开头的,其余字母的读音则是以辅音开头的
(4)Please pay attention to your spelling
You have dropped _____“m” here
(1989上海) A
a 二、不定冠词的