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Where V symbolizes a vowel letter and C a consonant letter, and bold letters indicate stress: ---C V C > ---C V CCing, ---C V CCed ( occur, occurring, occurred; expel, expelling, expelled; ... ) ---CVC > ---CVCing, ---CVCed ( wither, withering, withered; cancel, canceling, cancelled;...

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even though the o in o-n-e is a vowel. So a must be...

Nestor_fes wrote: 8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation). Although 'one' begins with a vowel, it is pronounced with the sound of a consonant - 'w'. 9. Miss Justine Fair listened to the two Chilean...

Thanks, Magda, you've done a job that I should have done. Yoong Liat, I hope you're satisfied now. On the question of spelling 40 as fourty , this is an improbable analogy as we are talking about a word used regularly. I can't remember ever myself using a sentence containing "the police is",...

We need someone with ___ knowledge of Chinese. It simply not proper grammar, for example, A good idea (you are describing that the idea is good) When you say "The good idea" its simply not proper grammar. -- They have __ distrust of the authorities. The answer is a deep, "a" and "an" are both...

CalifJim wrote: er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of a word) is also pronounced the same as those...

It sounds a little more like morphology, but I could be wrong. There are numerous cases where a particular alternation between two vowels (or consonants) occurs in this way. They occur in both the Germanic and Latinate components of English. find - found; bind - bound; grind - ground;...

Yes. er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of a word) is also pronounced the same as those above. ...

There are three possible pronunciations of the plural ending. (The third person present tense verb forms and the possessive forms follow the same pattern.) 1. /iz/ after a sibilant. This ending creates an extra syllable. The endings for Groups 2 and 3 (below) do not create an extra...

I don't know of a site like that. Initial s is pronounced /s/, except in sure and sugar , where it is pronounced /S/*. Medial s is problematic. There are no hard-and-fast rules -- mostly just lists. In -ssion or -ssure, the double S is /S/. impression, pressure In -sion or...