🗣Pronunciation rules🗣

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↗️ HOW TO MASTER ENGLISH INTONATION ↘️

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✨👏🏻Well done !👏🏻✨

“TEAR” is the correct answer.

🔴 “Tear” has an /ɪə/ sound as in:

appear, beard, clear, dear, ear, fear, gear, hear, near and year

🔵 “Mean”, “deal” and “leap” have the long i sound /i:/ as in:

be, eve, see, sleep, meal, read, leave, sea, team, field, believe and receive

🍃🌺Thank you 🌺🍃

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🗣 Pronouncing words with silent letters

Ex.:
• H :ache
• G :align
• K :knee
• C :scent
• D :sandwich
• P :pseudo
• L :calm
• U :build
• B :limb
• T :often
• W :awry

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⚡️ SYLLABLES ⚡️

The English alphabet is a collection of letters consisting of 5 vowels and 21 consonants. A group of letters constitutes a word and generally each word must contain at least one vowel, or one vowel sound, and these sounds constitute syllables.

English is about speaking, listening, reading and writing. While reading and writing depend on spellings for the proper understanding of the language, speaking and listening depend upon pronunciation. A word is pronounced in a particular way and it is here that syllables come in handy. Each word is broken into units of speech and we call each unit a syllable.

Each word will have a minimum of one syllable, but may have more. For instance,
• FOR is a word with one syllable
• CRI-CKET is a word with two syllables
• IN-CRED-IB-LE is a word with four syllables.

Can you see that each syllable contains just one vowel sound?

You will also notice that INCREDIBLE has four syllables and each syllable contains one vowel. This leads us to the conclusion that there are as many syllables in a word as there are vowels and this rule has, of course, exceptions!

When two vowels appear together they can be treated as a single vowel. For instance,

• PREACHER has three vowels but only two syllables because the EA is treated as one vowel and the last E is another vowel.

• BLOUSE has three vowels but is considered to be one syllable word because OU is treated as one vowel and the last E is treated as a silent letter.

Remember that the length of the word and the number of consonants in the word have no bearing on the number of syllables.
For instance, I, ME, LENGTH and RHYTHM are all words with one syllable. You will be surprised at RHYTHM because it does not have a vowel but sometimes, as you know, Y is considered as a vowel.

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⚡️ SYLLABLES ⚡️

✨More examples:

🍁 STRENGTH (strength)

'Strength' is a single syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels and this rule works for the word 'strength'.

'Strength' is one of the longest words with a single syllable and, of course, it has only one vowel.

🍁 HOUSE (house)

'House' is a single syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels but the word 'house' is an exception - it contains three vowels but only one syllable.

This is because 'ou' is a single vowel sound and the final 'e' is silent.

🍁 RASPBERRIES (rasp-berr-ies)

'Raspberries' is a three syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels except but not in this case.

Here 'ie' would be treated as a single vowel sound and hence 'raspberries' has only three syllables despite having four vowels.

🍁 TEACHER (teach-er)

'Teacher' is a two syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels except in some cases.

Here 'ea' would be treated as a single vowel sound and hence 'teacher' has only two syllables, despite having three vowels.

🍁 TENNIS (ten-nis)

'Tennis' is a two syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels.

This rule works for the word 'tennis'.

🍁 CRICKET (cri-cket)

'Cricket' is a two syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels and this rule works in the case of 'cricket'.

🍁 GIANT (gi-ant)

'Giant' is a two syllable word.

Remember that generally (but not always!) there are as many syllables as there are vowels.

🍁 BANANAS (ba-nan-as)

'Bananas' is a three syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels and this rule works in the case of 'bananas'.

🍁 CUPBOARD (cup-board)

'Cupboard' is a two syllable word.

Remember that generally there are as many syllables as there are vowels.

In the case of 'cupboard' 'oa' would be treated as a single vowel sound and hence it has only two syllables despite the word having three vowels.

🍁 TERMINATION (ter-mi-na-tion)

'Termination' is a four syllable word.

Remember that there are as many syllables as there are vowels sounds.

The 'io' in 'termination' would be treated as a single vowel sound and hence there are only four syllables despite the word having five vowels.


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🔹 -ough

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Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,

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🔰 Sounds twinning (gemination)


When a word ends in a consonant sound and the following word begins with the same consonant sound, we don't pronounce two sounds - both sounds are pronounced together as one.

✨I'm a bit tired.
✨We have a lot to do.
✨Tell me what to say.
✨She's slept for three hours.
✨I've finished.


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✨Checkout gemination.mp3

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🔰Sounds disappear (elision)


When the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation.

✨I'm going nex(t) week.
✨That was the wors(t) job I ever had!
✨Jus(t) one person came to the party!
✨I can'(t) swim.


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✨Checkout disappear.mp3

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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)1️⃣


When a sound at the end of a word takes on the quality of the sound at the beginning of the next word.

✨Good girl. She's a good girl. (goog girl)
✨Good boy. He's a good boy. (goob boy)
✨White paper. I only use white paper. (whipe paper)
✨Speed boat. I've never been in speed boat. (speeb boat)


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)1️⃣

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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)2️⃣


Because of the place in the mouth where certain sounds are made, sometimes the sound at the end of the first word changes to a completely different sound.

✨Can go. We can go now. (cang go)
✨Can buy. We can buy it. (cam buy)
✨Green Park. I walked through Green Park. (greem park)
✨On Monday. He arrives on Monday. (om Monday)


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)2️⃣

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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)3️⃣


Sometimes more than one feature of connected speech happens at the same time. Here, we’ll hear about ellision, when the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation. This means that the last sound of the word will be different and can be changed by the following word.

✨Hand bag. She couldn't find her handbag. (hambag)
✨Saint Paul's. I'm going to visit Saint Paul's Cathedral today. (Sem Paul's)


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)3️⃣

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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)4️⃣


There is another common form of assimilation when both the last sound of the first word and the first sound of the following word change to a third sound.

✨Would you. Would you like some tea?
✨Did you. Did you see it?
✨Do you. Do you want to get a cuppa?


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)4️⃣

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