Human為何要在前面加上Article?

Question

駛唔駛加上a, an, or the？

全句的意思是唔想做人，那應該加上？

I don't want to be __ human!

a, e, i, o, u, 的字頭要加an，那hour應該加什麼？humour？

Answer 1

I don't want to be __ human!

以你呢句為例，乜都唔駛加，因你個 human 後面無 NOUN （e.g. being)，而 human 在這句作為 ADJ，就乜都唔駛加。

看看網上的例證：

約有129項符合"I don't want to be human"的查詢結果

I don't want to be human so much right now.
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"THEN I DON'T WANT TO BE HUMAN!" (Extreme grief or a hidden clue?) by Melissa ...
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約有102項符合"I don't want to be a human"的查詢結果

don't want to be a human chauvinist any more than I'm an American chauvinist but - so if these people are better than we are, god bless 'em!
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/ 1999/12/99/back_to_the_future/esther_dyson.stm - 23k -

I don't want to be a human being I just want to be... a blenching snail!
www.youngcomposers.com/forum/snail-sail-6204.html - 66k

＞＞a, e, i, o, u, 的字頭要加an，那hour應該加什麼？humour？

你說的是如要用 a, an (indefinite articles) 時的選擇，如果要分用 a, an, the 個情形又不同。

hour 個 h 唔發，所以讀 our， 變了 O 開頭，所以是 an。humour 個 h 發，但 humour 這字如是單獨用，是抽象名詞，是不用加 article.

約有97,800,000項符合humour的查詢結果，

This article discusses humour in terms of comedy and laughter. ... A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor - 53k

上面可見 humour 不用加 a, 後面加了 sense of 才用 A 。

約有51,100,000項符合a humour的查詢結果，

It's Aaaugh! - a humor archive, featuring high-quality jokes collected since 1993. So funny, it hurts.
www.aaaugh.com/ - 4k -

A weekly humor column by Paul Mather. Fresh comedy each Thursday.
www.subatomichumor.com/ - 13k -

和 HUMAN 的情形一樣，後面有NOUN，才用 A。而這裏 HUMOUR 也變了 ADJ。

Answer 2

可以加 "a" 或者唔加都得!

I don't want to be human Or I don't want to be a human

Answer 3

應加上一個 'a'.