You have 'a' nice hair Mrs.M & a nice black eye
Yea, yea, yea...I know. The 'a' and 'an' articles are KG1 level. If so, then why do we keep making the same mistakes with them? Kasal akeed. We're just sooo busy and soooooo lazy to put 'a' and 'an' before our nouns...yea, I know how life can just get so busy!
'An' is followed by all words that begin with vowels; a, e, i, o, u (and sometimes 'h' to simplify pronunciation.
'A' is followed by all other other letters (constonants).
Both are followed by singular objects.... a cat....an egg
Now, no matter how much or how hard you want to change English into Arabic, you won't be able to. In Arabic we can say, da blog lil English...so then you translate it and say, this is English blog. But it doesn't work like that. You've got to say...This is a blog for English and this is a lesson for you. Balash el tanash da in the 'a' and 'an' put before singular objects coz it's these small silly mistakes that make your English seem weaker than what it is.
The real problem is when you put 'a' or 'an' before plural and non-countable nouns.
"You have a nice hair." El kalam da halw aiwe...lou eh? Oul..lou eh?....Lou 3andee sha3raya wahda yateema 3ala rasee; bashampooha, wa nashifha, wa a7ot 3aleha gel wa mousse wa adeha blowdryer ba3 keda. Kol el dawsha dee 3ala sha3raya wahda?! Inshala ma 7ad!
But thankfully, I've got more than that! And hair is a non-countable noun. Sooooooo, "You have nice hair."
"You have a nice eye." Merci ya sidi...wa el tanya mish 3agbak leh? I have 2 eyes elhamdlilAllah. Sooooooooo, "You have nice eyes"
When you talk about eye colors, it's all the same thing...you have nice blue, green or brown eyes.
ILA EL BLACK. If you make the mistake of using 'a' with 'eyes' and say, "You have a nice black eye," this is a fatal mistake.
If you don't know what a 'black eye' is, you can ask Mike Tyson, the boxer....it's a 'boneya' in the eye when your eye gets red first, then blue, then purple and finally black...thus, 'a black eye' as a result of a punch or bump.
So, don't forget to use ur a's and an's before singular objects.
Have a good night:)
'An' is followed by all words that begin with vowels; a, e, i, o, u (and sometimes 'h' to simplify pronunciation.
'A' is followed by all other other letters (constonants).
Both are followed by singular objects.... a cat....an egg
Now, no matter how much or how hard you want to change English into Arabic, you won't be able to. In Arabic we can say, da blog lil English...so then you translate it and say, this is English blog. But it doesn't work like that. You've got to say...This is a blog for English and this is a lesson for you. Balash el tanash da in the 'a' and 'an' put before singular objects coz it's these small silly mistakes that make your English seem weaker than what it is.
The real problem is when you put 'a' or 'an' before plural and non-countable nouns.
"You have a nice hair." El kalam da halw aiwe...lou eh? Oul..lou eh?....Lou 3andee sha3raya wahda yateema 3ala rasee; bashampooha, wa nashifha, wa a7ot 3aleha gel wa mousse wa adeha blowdryer ba3 keda. Kol el dawsha dee 3ala sha3raya wahda?! Inshala ma 7ad!
But thankfully, I've got more than that! And hair is a non-countable noun. Sooooooo, "You have nice hair."
"You have a nice eye." Merci ya sidi...wa el tanya mish 3agbak leh? I have 2 eyes elhamdlilAllah. Sooooooooo, "You have nice eyes"
When you talk about eye colors, it's all the same thing...you have nice blue, green or brown eyes.
ILA EL BLACK. If you make the mistake of using 'a' with 'eyes' and say, "You have a nice black eye," this is a fatal mistake.
If you don't know what a 'black eye' is, you can ask Mike Tyson, the boxer....it's a 'boneya' in the eye when your eye gets red first, then blue, then purple and finally black...thus, 'a black eye' as a result of a punch or bump.
So, don't forget to use ur a's and an's before singular objects.
Have a good night:)
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