Question

[C] Identify the vowel sound in the following: (a) East (b) End (c) Soon (d) Arm (e) Car​

Answer 1

Identify the vowel sound in the following:

(a) East = ''Ea'' long vowel sound.

(b) End = ''E'' short vowel sound.

(c) Soon = ''OO'' long vowel sound.

(d) Arm = ''A'' short vowel sound.

(e) Car​ = ''A'' short vowel sound.

• There are five vowels in the English alphabet. A, E, I, O, U.

• The rest of the remaining letters are known as consonants.

• The letter ''Y'' sometimes acts as a vowel as it makes a vowel sound as well as a consonant sound.

• Each of the five vowels(A, E, I, O, U) has a short sound and also a long sound.

Vowel A:

Short sound: Mat, Rat

Long sound: Rate, Cake

Vowel E:

Short sound: Net, Pet

Long sound: Meet, Leaf

Vowel I:

Short sound: Ink, Pin

Long sound: Ice, Kite

Vowel O:

Short sound: pot, clock

Long sound: Note, Rope

Vowel U:

Short sound: Sun, Cut

Long sound: Cute, Unicorn

Answer 2

Answer:

• In English Alphabet, letters are of two types, one is Vowel and other is Consonant.

• According to the given question our topic is Vowel. Vowel has five letters and they are a, e, i, o, u.

• Indefinite Article 'an' is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound and here they are 'end' and 'arm'.

• 'E' and 'a' are vowels that's why 'an' will be appropriate for them.

• When we pronounce 'end' then a vowel sound ccomes first and again for arm a vowel sound also comes first. so both have started with vowels.

• We know that Consonant can't stand alone and it needs support of vowel letters.

• No word can be formed without the help of Vowel letters and here they are 'soon' and 'car'. Both have started with Consonant letters 's' and 'c' but they are words only for vowels : soon and car. If we extract 'oo' and 'a' from the words then they are not words anymore.

• So in a word vowel plays major role.