Timeline for "An (obvious) problem" or "a (obvious) problem"?
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 22:58 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | This is a clever, one-time workaround, but the O.P. is asking about the grammatical rule, not for advice on how to skirt the issue. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 22:24 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 22:23 | comment | added | ColleenV | That doesn't really answer the question though. What happens when the author wants to say something like "an (obvious) ploy", and there's no synonym that happens to take "an" instead of "a"? | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 22:15 | history | answered | Sam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |