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Indefinite article

An article comes before a singular common noun. It is also used when in a conversation that singular common noun is used for the first time.

A, An are two indefinite articles. A is used before a noun starting with a consonant and ‘an’ is used when the noun starts with a vowel.

For example: I have a cat.

I will say this only when I want to tell some one that I have a cat. However, it is also worth noticing that I will tell this to the person who doesn’t know this fact.

Indefinite nouns: A

A cat. A dog. A building. A fork. A knife. A kitchen.

Indefinite nouns: An

An apple. An umbrella. An ice cube. An elephant. An Orange. An antelope.

Also Remember that language rules were made for speaking and you may find many things spelled in a certain way and spoken in a certain way. For example honest. Honest is spelled with an ‘h’, but pronounced with an ‘o’. So we say an honest man. Hour is a similar word. Spelled with an H but pronounced as Our. So it is an hour. So is Heir.

Similarly, unique starts with a vowel,, but is pronounced you neeq. So we say a unique. University is pronounced similarly and we say a university.