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as a official vs as official

Both phrases are not correct. The correct phrase is 'as an official'. 'Official' is a noun and requires an article before it.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 1078 views

as a official

This phrase is incorrect. 'Official' is a noun and requires an article before it.

The correct phrase is 'as an official'. Use 'an' before 'official' because 'official' starts with a vowel sound.

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On 1 July 2003 she was appointed as a probationary official.
As a public official, Darren Wahl violated the voters' trust.
I'm asking your help as a justice official.
The applicant challenges her classification in Grade A7, Step 3, on her appointment as a probationary official on 21 May 2003.
On 16 April 2005, she was appointed as a probationary official, with that same classification.
As a Commission official the complainant cannot exercise certain rights, such as access to educational facilities, in her host country.
The European approach is connected with the use of French as a second official language in public life and in schools.
The use of Turkish as a new official language will require preparations, and we will not be able to get everything done by 1 May.
Lastly, we think it crucial that Mr Van Buitenen should be has played his proper part as a European official.
I spent some hapless years working as a junior official in the TACIS programme some years ago.
As a respected official of this festival, I refuse to tarnish my integrity.
I spent the next few years working as a low-level official.
He's wanted for war crimes he committed as a high-ranking official in Communist Romania.
The applicant in this case objects to his grading as a probationary official in the JRC Directiorate General at grade A7 at the time of his appointment.
As a result, it was decided to initiate disciplinary proceedings in order to formally examine the compatibility of the activities of the person concerned with his duties as a Commission official.
In my career to date, as a public official, I have become familiar with and performed management, directorial and supervisory duties connected with public finance.
As a Commission official, I was allowed to scrutinise the report of the administrative inquiry, since I was the source of the allegations.
Annulment of the decision of 29 July 2009 of the appointing authority refusing to grant daily allowances to the applicant, following his recruitment as a probationary official on 16 January 2009.
Saying those things, which I as a prison official, could -
As a school official, I'm allowed to conduct a range of...

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as an official

as official

This phrase is incorrect. 'Official' is a noun and requires an article before it.

The correct phrase is 'as an official'. Use 'an' before 'official' because 'official' starts with a vowel sound.

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Persons already appointed as official auxiliaries must have adequate knowledge of the subjects mentioned in paragraph 5.
The competent authority may appoint as official auxiliaries only persons who have undergone training and passed a test in accordance with the following requirements.
Veterinarians already appointed as official veterinarians must have adequate knowledge of the subjects mentioned in paragraph 2.
Veterinarians already appointed as official veterinarians must have adequate knowledge of the subjects mentioned in paragraph 2.
The Regulation must specify more clearly the requirement for staff of the establishment to pass the same test as official auxiliaries, as set out at III 1.(a).
Persons already appointed as official auxiliaries must have adequate knowledge of the subjects mentioned in paragraph 5.
Direct credits/financing, refinancing and interest rate support are referred to as official financing support.
It is not customary for the Commission to attend trials of Vietnamese citizens as official observers.
In that connection governments and military units are regarded as official sources.
The following shall be recognized as official intradermal tuberculin tests:
We tabled a proposal broadening the industrialised countries' instrument to cover activities which cannot be eligible as official development assistance.
They seize on cooperation in the return of millions of Afghan refugees, sponsored by the United Nations, as official global acceptance of their unbearable tyranny.
Nevertheless, the principle that languages are equal as official and working languages is respected.
In Eritrea only Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and Muslim faiths are recognised as official religions, all others are 'illegal'.
I mentioned the bigger problem, which has not yet been clarified, of how any of this can be reported as official development assistance.
In Eritrea only Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and Muslim faiths are recognised as official religions, all others are illegal.
Nevertheless, the principle that languages are equal as official and working languages is respected.
The board felt that Maggie, in her role as official negotiator, should be the only person who had any personal contact with him.
Minority languages are recognised as official languages in addition to the Macedonian language, for those minorities reaching 20 % of the population.
meet the commitment to provide 0.7% of GDP as official development assistance,

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