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Vowel A or a + other letters
Letter or letter combination |
Syllable type Or the position in the word |
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Example words |
A |
Reregister |
[Ei] |
Name, face, take, cake, radio, space |
A |
Repeat closed syllables |
[A] |
Hand, stand, maths, happy |
A |
After W or wh |
[R] |
What, watch, wash |
[R:] |
Water |
AI ay |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[Ei] |
Wait, train, fail, rain, say, way, May, today |
Al |
Before most consonants |
[R:] |
Ball, wall, small, talk |
[R: l] |
Also, always |
Before F, m |
[A:] |
Half, palm (palm tree) |
Ar |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[A:] |
Star, card, party |
Ar |
After W or wh |
[R:] |
Warm, wharf (Pier) |
AU aw |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[R:] |
Autumn, because, draw, saw |
Air are |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[Z [] |
Chair, hair, pair, Hare, care |
Ass |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[A: S] |
Ass, glass, Class |
Vowel e or E + other letters
Letter or letter combination |
Syllable type Or the position in the word |
Pronunciation |
Example words |
E |
Reregister |
[I:] |
She, we, these, relay |
Repeat closed syllables |
[E] |
Well, get, very, step |
EA |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[I:] |
Seat, read, tea, easy |
[E] |
Bread, Head, ready |
EE |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[I:] |
Tree, week, green |
Er |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[[:] |
Her, term, verb |
Vowel I or I + other letters
Letter or letter combination |
Syllable type or position in a word |
Pronunciation |
Example words |
I (y) |
Reregister |
[Ai] |
Mine, quite, like, side, Friday, my, by, why |
Repeat closed syllables |
[I] |
Milk, ship, it, with, window, begin |
IE |
In the re-stressed syllable, before the consonants |
[I:] |
Field, piece |
At the end of the syllable word |
[Ai] |
Lie, die, tie |
Weigh |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[Ai] |
Night, right, high |
IR |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[[:] |
First, skirt, girl |
Uppercase and lowercase letters
Letter or letter combination |
Syllable type or position in a word |
Pronunciation |
Example words |
O |
Reregister |
[[U] |
No, go, nose, home |
Repeat closed syllables |
[R] |
Not, dog, hot, stop |
Before m, n, V, or th |
[Q] |
Come, month, love, brother, nothing |
OA |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[[U] |
Coat, boat, Road |
Oi Oy |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[Ri] |
Noise, join, boy, toy |
Oo |
In most cases |
[U:] |
School, too, cool |
Before K |
[U] |
Book, look, cook |
Or |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[R:] |
Sport, horse, forty |
Behind W |
[[:] |
Work, worse, worker |
Ou |
In most cases |
[Au] |
Round, house, about |
Before ght |
[R:] |
Ought (should) |
Ow |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[Au] |
Cow, now, down, how |
In re-stressed or unre-Stressed syllables |
[[U] |
Know, grow, show, window, yellow |
Vowel U or U + other letters
Letter or letter combination |
Syllable type or position in a word |
Pronunciation |
Example words |
U |
Reregister |
[Ju:] |
Use, duty, excuse |
Repeat closed syllables |
[Q] |
But, US, luck |
UR |
In the re-stressed syllable |
[[:] |
Nurse, turn, hurt, thrusday |
A large majority of vowels are read as [[] or [I].
Mother |
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Example words |
A |
[[] |
About, American, <China, breakfast |
[I] |
Orange, comrade, village, message |
E |
[[] |
Student, hundred |
[I] |
Jacket, begin, harvest |
I (y) |
[I] |
Coming, dining-room, country, country |
O |
[[] |
O 'clock, mongoeman |
U |
[[] |
Autumn |
Pronunciation rules for the combination of consonants and consonants
Letter or letter combination |
Syllable type or position in a word |
Pronunciation |
Example words |
C |
Before E, I, y |
[S] |
Nice, penpencil, bicycle |
Before a, O, U, and consonants L, R, T, and at the end of the syllable |
[K] |
Cap, come, cut, clock, cry, picture, music |
Ch |
|
[TF] |
Much, Chair, China, teacher |
G |
In most cases |
[G] |
Go, Big, Garden |
Before E |
[DV] |
Page, orange, large |
J |
|
[DV] |
Jack, jacket, June, John |
KN |
|
[N] |
Knife, know, knock |
Ll |
|
[L] |
Ball, tell, still |
NG |
|
[N] |
Sing, long, something |
|
[Ng] |
English, longer |
NK |
|
[NK] |
Ink, think, thanks |
PH |
|
[F] |
Physics (physical) |
Qu |
|
[KW] |
Quite, quick, quarter |
Sh |
|
[F] |
She, shoe, English, short |
Tch |
|
[TF] |
Watch, fetch (Take, take) |
Th |
|
[W] |
Thing, thank, month |
|
[T] |
This, that, |
Wh |
Before letter O |
[H] |
WHO, whose, whom |
|
[W] |
Where, what, when, why |
WR |
|
[R] |
Write, wrong |
X |
|
[Ks] |
Box, next, exercise |
|
[GZ] |
Exam, Example |
Y |
|
[J] |
Yes, you, year, yourself |