rcise 8. Answer these questions :
1. What is a vowel ? How many vowels are there in English ?
Name them.
2. What is a semi-vowel ? How many are they in all ? Name them.
3. What is a consonant ? How many are they in all ? Name them.
4. What is a syllable ?
Answers
Answer:
there are 5 vowel in english they are a,e,i,o,u
Answer:
1. A vowel is a sound produced with a comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract. In everyday language, a vowel is a letter (sound) of the English alphabet that is not a consonant
there are 5 vowels in English :a,e,i,o,u
2. They are the sounds which you make naturally as you “glide” from one vowel sound to another when there is no intervening consonant. The “glide” after a u- or o-sound is what we write in English with “w”; after an e- or i-sound what we write as “y”
3., a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are [p], pronounced with the lips; [t], pronounced with the front of the tongue; [k], pronounced with the back of the tongue; [h], pronounced in the throat; [f] and [s], pronounced by forcing air through a narrow channel (fricatives); and [m] and [n], which have air flowing through the nose (nasals). Contrasting with consonants are vowels.
The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Z, and usually Y
4. Here are examples of syllables within words:
‘lake’ – has one syllable
‘pa-per’ – has two syllables
‘en-er-gy – has three syllables
‘cal-cu-la-tor’ – has four syllables
‘comm-u-ni-ca-tion – has five syllables
‘res-pon-si-bi-li-ty’ – has six syllables
The word with most syllables in English is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Pneu-mo-no-ul-tra-mi-cro-sco-pic-si-li-co-vol-ca-no-co-ni-o-sis (19 syllables)
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