Choose the correct article option to fill in the gap.
My brother is ___ engineer, and he works for ___ European company.
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Верный ответ
- Can / a
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The word "engineer" begins with a vowel sound, so the indefinite article "an" is used. The word "European" begins with the consonant sound /j/ (like "you"), so the article "a" is needed. Therefore the correct pair is "an / a". The pair "an / an" is wrong because it ignores the sound /j/ at the beginning of "European". The pair "a / a" ignores the vowel sound in "engineer". The pair "the / an" is wrong because no particular engineer is being referred to, and "an" does not fit before "European".