Perplexing sentences
There is ......./s/ sound in the word city.
a) an b) a
I go for (b). Am I right?
I have another question. What does the following sentence mean? -The blackboard is white.
Top answer
No, an. Speak it this way. There is .
- No, an.
- Speak it this way.
- There is .
- /ESS/ sound in the word city.
- I have another question.
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No, an.
Speak it this way.
There is .an....../ESS/ sound in the word city.
I have another question. What does the following sentence mean? -The blackboard is white.
More modern 'blackboards are actually white, and you write with an erasable black marker. But we still often call it a blackboard.
0Omar Ahmed-The blackboard is white.
Old-fashioned blackboards were made of slate, a black, matte, smooth stone. That's why it is the compound word "black" + "board".
Teachers wrote on the board with a piece of another kind of stone ( limestone) called chalk. It is white and leaves a white mark when rubbed against the slate. This chalk mark can easily
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