Question

My friend is a honest man is this sentence correct

Answer 1

no the correct sentence is my friend is an honest man because h is silent over there thus making the word sound like a vowel i.e it starting with o.

Answer 2

ANSWER :

My friend is an honest man .

DETAILS :

The pronunciation of "honest" is "Onest".

Hence "an" is used before the word generally.

So "a" is not used in this case .

Similarly you did not take an umbrella is correct .

Hence the answer is :

"an" must be used .