<p>I remember that there was one question talking about a band with unique sound and rising to the top of the charts or something on a Writing section...</p>
<p>Problem is..the error was the it said the band "raise/raised" (or something like that) to the top instead of "rise/rised" BUT on the sentence, it said that the band had "A" unique sound. Since the most elementary grammar rules states that you have to use "an" before a word that starts with a vowel, it was tempting to say that was the "unique sound" was the error but "raise" to the top of musical charts is such a more obvious error. </p>
<p>Did anyone else notice this and what did you guys think of it?</p>
<p>You can use a in front of some vowels that take on other sounds. Like a unicorn, a universe, etc. To use an, you would have to pronounce it oooonique or oooonicorn or ooooniverse.</p>
<p>I don't remember this question either, but "a unique sound" is correct, because the u has a "yu" sound. Similarly, we say "an hour", because the h is silent. Other examples include university, universe, and ukulele.</p>
<p>You've never noticed that you say a unique, a unicorn, a universe.</p>
<p>its because they're pronounced yoo - nique, yoo - ni - corn, yoo - ni -verse, notice that even though they start with vowels the first sound is actually the consonant "y".</p>
<p>Do you honestly say an unique? It doesn't even sound right, you don't need to know anything about grammar to know that this is wrong.</p>
<p>EDIT:
Wow, I used the same examples as ThePerson, I didn't even see that post.</p>