Question

break the word belonging and message into syllables​

Answer 1

Answer:

longing

beautiful

elephant

education

ponograph

Answer 2

1. Belonging – be-long-ing

2. Message – mes-sage

Explanation:

Syllables can be described as the number of times the vowel sound occurs in a word. As we know that the vowels are: 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'. Even ‘Y’ is also included in the list of identifying the syllable when it created the sound of a vowel. For example, cry.

There can be more than one syllable in a word if the vowels present in a given word creates more than one sound. For example, Belonging. In this word, be-long-ing i.e. 3 syllables are there depending upon the number of sounds created by the vowels.