Discussion
He is considered __________ heir to a vast fortune.
Answer: C
The answer is an: He is considered an heir to a vast fortune.
The choice between a and an depends on the first sound, not the first letter. In heir the h is silent, so the word begins with a vowel sound (air) and takes an, as do hour, honest and honour.
A heir is wrong for that reason. The heir would mean the one known heir, but the sentence introduces him as one heir to a fortune that is otherwise unidentified, so the indefinite article is what the examiners want. A countable singular noun like heir cannot stand with no article.
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