He asked for a cigarette.

he Pronoun

— A person or animal that we do not know the gender of. Kill that spider, before he gets away!.

he Noun

— A he refers to a male person. — He is the name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets such as Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others.

ask Verb

— To ask is to look for an answer to a question by saying it. She sure does ask a lot of questions! — To approach someone to see if they will do something. Let me ask my mom if I can go.

for Preposition

— shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function This cake is for you. This is a net for catching fish. — For is used to show the reason for something He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.

for Subordinator

— For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive It's not good for you to be too relaxed.

a Determinative

— A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type. Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".

a Noun

— A is the first letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" comes before "b". — In some schools, an A is a very high grade. Ron got an A on his earth science test.

cigarette

— noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking