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Pronunciation of the letter “a”

Posted on August 16, 2023June 19, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - phonetics, pronunciation rules in EnglishTags - about, ai sound, al sound, apron, ar sound, au sound, august, author, aw sound, baby, ball, banana, bat, bread, brought, cake, camera, car, cat, combination, CVce patterns, draw, ea, farm, for, hat, head, late, letter a, long, made, mail, open, ough combination, paper, patterns, rain, reduced, sail, saw, schwa sound, short, sound, star, syllable, tail, talk, teams, thought, vowel

Here are some common pronunciation patterns for the letter a :short, long vowel, schwa sound, CVce patterns, ea, ough, au, ar, al. aw, ai combinations.

Pronunciation of the letter “u”

Posted on August 15, 2023June 19, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - phonetics, pronunciation rules in EnglishTags - build, bus, cat, cloud, cup, digraph, for, fruit, guest, guilt, letter u, long, move, patterns, practice, queen, quiet, short, sound, unique, vowel

Here are some common pronunciation patterns for the letter u in English words, along with examples in transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA):long and short vowel sounds

Pronunciation of the letter “i”

Posted on August 12, 2023June 19, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - phonetics, pronunciation rules in EnglishTags - believe, bike, child, cry, dialect, ei, field, find, fly, for i, high, i before a, i before e, ie, ie before, igh, kind, ld, lid, like, long i, open, patterns, pie, rein, reliable, short i, sigh, silent e, sit, slide, syllable, tie, time, vein, vowel, wild, y as

The pronunciation patterns for the letters “i” , along with their phonetic transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): short, long i, and other types : lid, time,believe,child, bird,fly, tie,like, wild etc.

Pronunciation of the letter “e”

Posted on August 12, 2023June 19, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - phonetics, pronunciation rules in EnglishTags - balance, bed, bee, bread, cake, ceiling, different, ea combination, ei combination, feel, field, for e, great, ie combination, let, like, long, make, meet, patterns, pen, pie, receive, red, sea, short, silent e, sound, tree, unstressed e

The pronunciation patterns for the letter e along with their phonetic transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA):ee, ie, ei, ea, combinations, unstressed e, silent e etc.

The Phonics rules in English

Posted on August 11, 2023June 19, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - phonetics, phonicsTags - and, blends, consonants, digraphs, drop, ending, exceptions, fizzle, for, g, hard c, in, in k and ck, j and ch sound, long, phonics, plurals, r-controlled, reading, rule, rules, schwa, short, silent e, soft c, sound, spelling, syllables, the e with ing, vowels

There are 15 Phonics rules for reading and spelling: vowels in syllables, long and short vowels, silent e rule, consonants digraphs and blends and etc.