Hi! The gurus here are going to kill me for this, but I believe that with elementary students the important thing is to teach the really different ending sound which is /id/ . The difference between /t/ and /d/ is slight and does not impair

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

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

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.

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

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

Have the students touch their own throats lightly as they pronounce the consonants. The voiced consonants ( b, g, v, z, etc) cause the throat to vibrate, while the voiceless ( p, k, f, s , etc) do not.

Pieanne wrote: Maybe "basicly" became "basically" for the sake of pronounciation, and by analogy with the other -ally adverbs? There may be a better reason, though, but I don't know it. Bonne journee, Pieanne! I thought so too, for

Science_guru wrote: Sweety_pudding wrote: i think of and off just looks like earchother.. I don't agree with this. In fact I don't see any relation between "of" and "off" "of" is a preposition e.g. President of America, son

Hi Xcats, This is related to the spelling of the past tense forms of regular verbs; it also applies to the "ing" form. spelling of regular affirmative past tense forms Most regular verbs: add -ed work —worked help —helped start —