Question

IV] Yesterday I got
one rupee coin. (Use article)
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Answer 1

Answer:

yesterday I got an one rupee coin.

Answer 2

*explanation*:

Both of them are incorrect. If we take a step back both of the above sentences, generally ‘an’ is used in front of the sounds of ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’ and ‘u’ not the letters.

Basically, “a one rupee” and “an one rupee”, both are wrong.

One of them, obviously the option with ‘a’ could have been correct if you have formed the sentence like:

a one rupee coin, or;

a one rupee note.

In such sentences “one rupee” is used as an adjective and the usage of ‘a’, here, is correct because the sound of “one” begins with a ‘w’ phonetically and we don’t use ‘an’ before the consonant sounds.

So, we do not use ‘an’ in front ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’ and ‘u’ rather we use it in front of the sounds of these vowels.