Question

I went to university is study article

Answer 1

Answer:

In this sentence, though we have 'university', the first letter being a vowel, the sound is like /ju:/ a consonant sound. So it takes 'a' before it. Therefore the sentence is: I am a university student.

The U in university is pronounced with a long 'u' sound which sounds like 'yew'. So, even though the letter is a vowel, it is not pronounced like one in 'university' because it does not have a vowel sound. Lets take another case, the U in umbrella is pronounced as a vowel sound , so we use 'an'.