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a teacher vs an teacher

The correct phrase is 'a teacher.' The use of 'an' before a word starting with a consonant sound is incorrect in English. 'An' is used before words that start with a vowel sound.

Last updated: March 24, 2024 • 10232 views

a teacher

This is the correct construction in English.

Use 'a' before words that start with a consonant sound. For example, 'a teacher,' 'a book,' 'a car.'
  • You guys should feel very lucky to have Ms. Sinclair as a teacher.
  • As a teacher, it's so fulfilling when an assignment turns into something more.
  • She's offered me a position as a teacher.
  • As a teacher, I'm drawn to the truth.
  • Jimmy Ledoux came up spotless... 3 kids, wife's a teacher.
  • Let me go undercover as a teacher.
  • Sarah Lawrence cannot accept someone who has hazed a teacher.
  • Students are allowed unless accompanied by a teacher.
  • Lucky your daddy's a teacher.
  • Students generally like a teacher who understands their problems.
  • Charlie's father advised him to become a teacher.
  • Bonnie was a teacher's aide at a preschool.
  • I was so jealous of you that a teacher loved you.
  • I think a teacher saw me the other day but said nothing.
  • It's a duty for a teacher to take care of his student.
  • Maybe being a teacher's kid is OK if your parent is popular.
  • Jeff could come back to Greendale as a teacher.
  • There's a teacher at Bakowski Elementary School with a broken leg.
  • I thought you'd be a teacher or a doctor.
  • I didn't know that a teacher could cut kids' hair.

an teacher

This is an incorrect construction in English.

Avoid using 'an' before words that start with a consonant sound. Use 'a' instead.
  • I think you're probably an amazing teacher.
  • Fortunately, I have an excellent teacher.
  • Now that's because we had an amazing teacher who accepted us.
  • Gloria, this is about an uptight teacher.
  • I'm an English teacher, and that is a quote from Robert Browning.
  • Although, I must say, he had an exceptional teacher.
  • You know, I started as an English teacher.
  • Changed in a way that makes you look like an exemplary teacher.
  • But, you know, she's an excellent teacher.
  • I was an English teacher for nearly 30 years.
  • You're an excellent teacher of... the elderly.
  • That way I can start by being an assistant teacher.
  • You know, he's an English teacher, he'd appreciate the poetic justice.
  • She apparently is an excellent teacher.
  • I actually thought you were an outstanding teacher.
  • You Have Been An Excellent Teacher, However.
  • Guy looks like an English teacher.
  • She must have been an amazing teacher.
  • What he studied had nothing to do with becoming an English teacher.
  • An art teacher in her last school said she was good as anyone twice her age.

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