Path: katsu From: katsu@sra.CO.JP (WATANABE Katsuhiro) Message-ID: Date: 05 Jan 1998 01:25:57 GMT Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan Distribution: Newsgroups: japan.lang.english.communication Subject: "have access" or "have an access" Followup-To: japan.lang.english.communication Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.47) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Everytime I relate to English, I am comfused by articles(a, an and the). When I asked a native english speaker "Do you know the Internet?" , she replyed (a) or (b) of the following: (a) "Yes. I have an access to the Internet." (b) "Yes. I have access to the Internet." But I missed the chance to get it right whether the indefinite article was pronounced or not. Which is syntactically correct (a) or (b)? -- WATANABE Katsuhiro Software Research Associates, Inc. Tokyo, Japan.