For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Listen carefully to the sound spelled by the in each of the following words and then sort the words into the two groups based on whether spells the sound.This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Words in which the letter spells the soundįill in the blanks: The letter is usually a vowel, but it is a consonant when it comes right after the letter. Listen carefully to the sound spelled by the in each of the following words and then sort the words into the two groups based on whether spells the sound. In six of these words, the letter spells the sound.

Here are seven words in which comes right after.Words in which the comes right after the letter įill in the blanks: The letter is usually a _, but it can be a consonant when it comes right after the letter _. Look carefully at the letter in front of the in each of the following words and then sort the words into the two groups.Then put a check mark after each word that contains a or that is a vowel. Spell each word in Column 1 backwards and you will get a new word.

Sometimes the or is a consonant, sometimes a vowel. Each word in Column 1 below contains a or a.Then sort the words into the two groups below: Listen to the sound the is spelling or helping to spell in each of these words.In such cases, is a consonant and so we do twin the and. That would give us the incorrect spellings and rather than the correct spellings quitting and quizzing.

In such cases, and are vowels, so we do not twin them.Īnd if were always a vowel, words like quit and quiz would have two vowel letters in front of the and rather than just one, which means that when we added ing to them, we would not twin the and. If and were always consonants, we would have to twin them when we add - ing to words like crow and toy, which would lead to the incorrect spellings and rather than the correct crowing and toying. In another concept, you can learn that when we add a suffix like - ing to a word that ends with a single consonant with a single vowel right in front of it, we must add a twin consonant letter: So if we start with the word hop and add -ing to it, we get the following:

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