which one is written correctly??????

Question

an hour ...or..... a hour

if an hour is correct then is an ball or an foot correct????? no it would be ....a ball or a foot ....explain please

Answer 1

An hour.
Because you use the "an" when the noun that follows is pronounced with a vowel *sound*. It doesn't have to be an actual vowel. Since the h in "hour" isn't pronounced, it sounds like "our", so you use "an".
So it would be "an hour", but "a house". "An individual", since it really begins with a vowel. But "a ukulele" or "a user", since they sound like they begin with y's.

Answer 2

An Hour

Answer 3

An hour (if you said Hour and breathed on the H, it would have to be a Hour). In the UK we would say a Herb, but I think in the US it is pronounced without the breath and would be an herb. Also as in an hotel. Lots of people over here pronounce Hotel with a breath, so a hotel would be ok. There's a proper word for the 'breath' word, but I've forgotten what it is.

Answer 4

An hour

Answer 5

an hour is correct. why? because although the words hour starts with a consonant letter h, the sound of h is not spoken
thus. it is read the same as our. in this case it becomes a word which starts from a vowel sounds a

Answer 6

It is correct to say an hour.

Answer 7

an hour

Answer 8

an hour

Answer 9

an hour

Answer 10

an hour - because the h is not pronounced

thus whether to say an hotel on a hotel depends on whether that h is silent or not