You're surely right. There's no possible issue of 'agreement in number.'

Of course, even I knew that and I usually have no idea about any grammar or usage questions that appear(for no good reason) at PW.

This "an" or "a" grammatical usage has got me very confused and perplexed.

Are you guys saying it is incorrect to use "an" in a sentence like say for example: "He was an histrionic pedant?"

It's quite simply a question of "a" before a consonant and "an" before a vowel. The word following "a" or "an" can be a noun or an adjective or an adverb.

An emperor.
A stupid emperor!
An insufferable emperor!
An incredibly stupid emperor!

In all examples, "emperor" is singular and so are "a" and "an."

"Histrionic," "historic," and similar words are considered by some to begin with non-aspirated, or silent "h" - even though the "h" is pronounced! - in which case those persons would speak and write "an historic occasion" - considered by some to be pedantic.

Such words as "hour," "honor," "honesty," do begin with a non-aspirated "h" so one would always write : "See you in an hour." It's an honor to know you." etc. ...

Regards,

It's pedantic.

.....although.....

I imagine lots of us are familiar with this album (which I still have the LP of):



....although another Amazon page for it calls it "A" Historic Return.

And of course this doesn't prove anything, because we'd probably consider the album title pedantic.

....and then there was this album which parodied the above, with the "an" probably being part of what they thought was funny, and I agree:

This chap went to a decent school ...

“It's quite simply a question of "a" before a consonant and "an" before a vowel.
The word following "a" or "an" can be a noun or an adjective or an adverb.”

Top marks BruceD ... but if only those American chappies
could spell words like "honour" correctly ... the baseball enthusiasts keep dropping their "u's" ...
we more cultured types play the gentleman's game of cricket, don't you know (straight-bat and all that rot).

Some say that Bach played cricket ... his finger-dexterity must have made him a very good spin-bowler.

Basebaul.

Please, btb. Get it right!

Basebawl.

Basebrawl.

Doh! Whatever...

Some chaps can't even spell basebawl right.

I challenge anyone to rearrange the title of this thread so that it does not end with a preposition.

It's not Bach, but this is a nice performance of a sarabande, in period costume.
Sarabande by Il Giardino Harmonico

"Should one dance to the Bach Dance Suites?"

"Were the Bach Dance Suites intended for dancing occasions?

"Perchance upon a pretty lass / when all you've got is a good Bach polonass / what's a lad to do / but to run the whole suite through?"

...

I should probably get some sleep XD

You could just drop the last "to" and I think the meaning would still be clear. Or, may I suggest, "Were they meant to be danced to, the bach suites?

do I win something?

This thread is all tommyrot and twaddle up with which I will not put!

KZ

Were the Bach Dance Suites meant as pieces to which to be danced...........to?

Were the Bach dance suites intended for actual dancing?

How much more of this do we have to up with put?

Cheers!

Most folks just try to rearrange the words, but it's usually easy to just change the words. For instance, instead of saying "for what" as opposed to "what for", you can simply ask "why".