Cover of the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2A - Are you tidy or untidy? for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

Complete the chart. Why is it a pen but an umbrella?

Answer

  • (two) umbrellas
  • a watch
  • a diary
  • Because it begins with a vowel sound, not a consonant sound.