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DEFINATION
Pronunciation refers to the ability to use the correct stress, rhythm, and intonation of a word in a spoken language.
CONSONANT
VOWEL
Consonant letters and their sounds : A consonant letter usually represents one consonant sound. Some consonant letters, for example, c, g, s, can represent two different consonant sounds.
Letters Sounds Examples b c d f [b] [s] [k] [d] [f] baby, buy, blind, absent, number center, cigarette, agency, notice; cake, come, cucumber, clean, cry, scratch, act, panic day, dear, die, door, duty, admire, hidden, lady, kind fast, female, five, forest, fund, flight
[h] hair, help, history, home, hotel; h [-] hour, honor, honest, Sarah j [j] l [l] jam, Jane, jet, jelly, joke, John, June, just late, alone, close, slim, please, old, nicely, table k [k] Kate, kind, sky, blanket, break, take, look m [m] make, men, mind, mother, must, common, summer, n [n] napkin, never, funny, student, kindness p [p] paper, person, pick, public, repair, apple, keep,
r [r] rain, red, rise, brief, grow, scream, arrive [s] send, simple, song, system, street, lost, kiss, release; s [z] cause, present, reason, realism, advise, always, is, t [t] task, tell, time, tone, tune, hotel, attentive, student, v [v] vast, vein, even, review, give, move, active w [w] wall, war, way, word, swear, swim, twenty, twist
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Soup - soap
A vowel letter can represent different vowel sounds: hat [ht], hate [heit], all [o:l], art [a:rt], any ['eni].
The same vowel sound is often represented by different vowel letters in writing: [ei] they, weigh, may, cake, steak, rain.
The vowels A, E, I, O, U, Y alone, in combination with one another or with R, W represent different vowel sounds. The chart below lists the vowel sounds according to the American variant of pronunciation.
Sounds Letters Examples [i] [e] i y e ea a ai, ay ei, ey ea it, kiss, tip, pick, dinner, system, busy, pity, sunny
let, tell, press, send, end, meter [i:] bread, dead, weather, leather sea, mean [i:] late, make, race, able, stable, aim, wait, play, say, day, said, says [e]; eight, weight, they, hey, height, eye [ai] break, great, steak
[ei]
ar [a:] a
army, car, party, garden, park, war, warm [o:] father, calm, palm, drama; BrE: last, class, dance, castle, half
i, ie ice, find, smile, tie, lie, die, [ai] y, uy my, style, apply, buy, guy ou [au] ow [o] o out, about, house, mouse, now, brown, cow, owl, powder not, rock, model, bottle, copy group, soup [u:] know, own [ou]
[o:]
more, order, cord, port, long, gone, cost, coffee, law, saw, pause, because, bought, thought, caught, hall, always, water, war, want oil, voice, noise, boy, toy
[oi] [ou]
o go, note, open, old, most, oa, ow road, boat, low, own, bowl use, duty, music, cute, huge, tune, few, dew, mew, new, euphemism, feud, neutral, hue, cue, due, sue, suit
u ew [yu:] eu ue, ui
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