Question

My mother is ----- honest women (fill in the blanks with correct article)

Answer 1

Answer:

My mother is an honest woman

Answer 2

Answer:

My mother is an honest woman.

Here the word 'honest' has the vowel sound of letter 'o'.

Explanation:

Articles are determiners a, an, the. A/an are indefinite articles. The is definite article. The is used for those things and persons which we are already aware about. A/an is used for those things or persons that have been mentioned for the first time.

Articles 'a', 'an', and 'the' are used before nouns considering many rules in mind. One of the rules is the rule of consonant and vowel. While using articles we follow the 'sound rule' in mind. If the sound is vowel, we use 'an' while using indefinite article. If the sound is consonant, we shall use 'a'. Some words starting with vowel make consonant sounds. Words such as 'university', 'useful', ’unique’, 'unicorn', etc. also fall in the category of words that start with a vowel letter; but their sound is consonant. Hence we use 'a' in front of these words. Some acronyms that start with letters 's', 'm', etc. they produce vowel sound.