what are vowel consonant words?
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['Words are built from vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and consonants (the rest of the alphabet).', "The letter 'y' is a bit different, because sometimes it acts as a consonant and sometimes it acts as a vowel.", 'Knowing how vowels and consonants work together to make words and sounds will help you with your spelling.']
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When y forms a diphthong—two vowel sounds joined in one syllable to form one speech sound, such as the "oy" in toy, "ay" in day, and "ey" in monkey—it is also regarded as a vowel. Typically, y represents a consonant when it starts off a word or syllable, as in yard, lawyer, or beyond.
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The letter Y can be regarded as both a vowel and a consonant. ... (This consonant sound, like that of the letter W, is sometimes called a 'semivowel' because it is made in a similar way to a vowel, but functions in contrast to vowels when used in words.)
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Words with no vowels Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. ... Shh, psst, and hmm do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds. There is some controversy whether they are in fact “words,” however.
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['Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line.', 'Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line.', 'Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line.']
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Short a /æ/: cat, short e /ɛ/: bed, short i /ɪ/: sit, short o /ɑ/: top, short u /ʌ/: sun. The term short vowel is used to refer to the sounds that most often correspond to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u' when the vowel occurs individually between consonants.
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'Long vowel' is the term used to refer to vowel sounds whose pronunciation is the same as its letter name. The five vowels of the English spelling system ('a', 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u') each have a corresponding long vowel sound /eɪ/, /i/, /ɑɪ/, /oʊ/, /yu/.
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English Language Learners Definition of vowel : a speech sound made with your mouth open and your tongue in the middle of your mouth not touching your teeth, lips, etc. : a letter (such as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y in English) that represents a vowel.
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Vowel. A vowel is a particular kind of speech sound made by changing the shape of the upper vocal tract, or the area in the mouth above the tongue. In English it is important to know that there is a difference between a vowel sound and a [letter] in the [alphabet].
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Although we do not typically use diacritical marks for consonant sounds, we do teach them for vowel sounds. The most common diacritical marks are the long vowel mark ( ¯ ), called the macron; the short vowel mark ( ˘ ), called the breve, and the schwa mark ( ə ).
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If a word has two vowel sounds in it , it means it has two syllables. The words captain, master, teacher, doctor, eager, canal, about, delight etc are two syllable words because they have two vowel sounds in them.
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Words (found in major English dictionaries) consisting entirely of vowels include AA (a type of lava), AE, AI, AIEEE, IAO, OII, EAU, EUOUAE, OE, OO, I, O, A, IO, and UOIAUAI, the last of these being the longest vowel-only word (seven letters).
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A vowel is a particular kind of speech sound made by changing the shape of the upper vocal tract, or the area in the mouth above the tongue. In English it is important to know that there is a difference between a vowel sound and a [letter] in the [alphabet]. In English there are five vowel letters in the alphabet.
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Letters. The word consonant is also used to refer to a letter of an alphabet that denotes a consonant sound. The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y.
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English Language has Forty Four Phonemes (Speech Sounds) which are further divided into two categories i.e. Vowel Speech Sounds and Consonant Speech Sounds. The Vowel Speech Sounds are simply called Vowel Sound & Consonant Speech Sounds are called Consonant Sound. There are 22 Vowel Sounds and 22 Consonant Sounds.
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Vowel teams are probably the most common source of reading and spelling errors as one vowel sound may be represented by as many as 6 different vowel teams (e.g. long 'o' represented by 'oa', 'ow', 'oe', 'o_e,' 'ough' and 'ew' as in sew).
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vowels semivowels. In English alphabet, there are five (5) Vowels- a, e, i, o and u. And there are two (2) more letters- y and w, which are called Semi-Vowels. In the word "cry", y is considered as Semi-vowel.