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Exceptions: now, how, cow, row, brow.Irregular spellings: shoulder, poultry, mould, soul, own, brooch. / a͟ʊ / is represented in spelling by: 1. the digraph ou - South, thousand, mouth. 2. the digraph ow in the medial position - town, towel, brown, crowd. Irregular spellings: now, cow, how, vow, bow, brow, allow, bough, plough, drought. / ɑ:/ is represented in spelling by: 1. the digraph ar - cart, party 2. the letter a followed by ss-pass, grass st-past, fast sk-ask, basket sp-grasp, clasp ft-after, craft th-path, father. 3. the letter a followed by lm-calm, palm lf - half, calf (the letter l is mute here) 4. the suffixes anceand and-France, glance, demand, command. Rare spellings: aunt, laughter, clerk, sergeant, heart, hearth, drama, aria, tomato, banana, vase, moustache. / u: / is represented in spelling by: 1. the letter u in open syllables - tune, mute /ju:/ It sounds /u: / preceded by j, r, l -June, rule, blue, true. 2. the digraphs eu, ew/ju:/ -feudal, neutral, few, new but: Jew, crew, flew /u:/ 3. the digraph ui - suit, fruit, cruise. 4. the digraph oo in all positions except when followed by k or r - moon, soon. 5. the digraph ou in words of French origin - soup, route, youth, wound, you. Rare spelling: shoe, beauty, queue, who, whom, whose, two.
/ ɔ:/ is represented in spelling by: 1. the letters or ( the third syllable type) - port, sport. 2. the letters oor -floor, door our - your, course oar - board, roar. 3. the letter a followed by llandl + cons. -all, tall, salt, chalk. 4. the letters au and aw -autumn, author, law,saw,lawn. 5. the letter combinations ought - ought, thought. aught -caught, taught. 6. the letters war -warm, ward. Irregular reading: our, sour, flower, poor.
/ ɜ:/ is represented in spelling by: 1. the letters er- term, service. ir bird, fir. ur turn, fur, nurse. yr-myrtle. Note: the third syllable type. 2. the digraph ear + cons. - earth, heard. 3. the letters wor - work,word. Rare spellings: journey, journalist, were, colonel. / ɪə / is represented in spelling by: 1. the letter combinations ere -here, severe ear - hear, dear eer -cheer, deer. 2. the letter combination ier - pier, cashier. 3. the letter e followed by r + vowel - era, hero, period, serious. Rare spellings: theory, museum, theatre, idea, beard, real.
/ ɛə / is represented in spelling by: 1. the letter combinations are - care, fare, prepare. air - chair, air, hair. 2. the letter a followed by r + vowel - vary, Mary, parents, variant. Irregular spellings: are /a:/, to bear, to wear, to tear, to swear, pear, where, there.
/ uə / is represented in spelling by: 1. the combination ure - cure, pure, sure. 2. by the letter u followed by r +vowel - jury, fury, during. Irregular spellings: poor, moor, tour(ist), Europe.
The English Consonant System The consonant is a speech sound in the production of which the air stream coming out of the lungs has to overcome a certain obstruction on its way. The English consonant system consists of 24 consonant phonemes.
Graphical rules / k / is represented in spelling by: 1. the letterk - keep, kitchen, kind. 2. the letter c before a, o, u -cat, cut, coat before consonants-cry, class in final position- sync, music. 3. the digraph ck - sick, back, buckwheat (only after short vowels)
/ g / is represented in spelling by 1. the letter g before a, o, uand cons. -gave, good, gun, grammar. Irregular readings: give, got, get, girl, finger, begin. 2. the digraph gu - language. / ʃ / is represented in spelling by: 1. the letter combination sh - shoe, she. 2. the letter c and the letter combination ci - official, ancient, social, special. 3. the suffixes tion,sion,ssion -expression, proposition, excursion, examination. Date: 2016-03-03; view: 948
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