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“A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement
Let's say I send a text to someone saying:
Can you get me a coffee?
Over here, I use a as the following word doesn't begin with a vowel, which is all very good.
Now what if the person got me a bad coffee (like decaf or something). So I send another text:
Can you get me (actual) coffee?
Now what would I use? a or an? As actual is in brackets, does it enforce the rule of requiring a to become an?
