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What are long vowels words?

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A long vowel is a vowel sound that is pronounced the same way as the name of the letter itself. For example, the long U sound is pronounced like "yoo," as would be the case in words like "lure" and "tube." By contrast, the short U sound is pronounced more like "uh," as in words like "cub" and "tub."


Correspondingly, what are some long vowel words?

Long Vowel Sounds

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  • ace, age, ape, ate, bake, cave, cage, dare, date, fake, gaze, hate, lace, make, Nate, pale, safe, take, wake, grape, place, plate, quake, scare, share, snake.
  • AI: fair, hair, jail, mail, rain, tail, wait, brain, chair, chain, paint, Spain.

what are the long vowels in English? '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 /e?/, /i/, /??/, /o?/, /yu/.

Consequently, how do you describe a long vowel?

Long vowels are those in which the sounds of the letters A, E, I, O, and U match the spoken name of the letter. They are usually taught from preschool through the first grade. Oftentimes, a word with a short vowel is transformed into a long vowel by placing a silent letter "e" at the end of the word.

What are long vowels and short vowels?

Long vowel sounds sound like you are saying the letter itself. Short vowel sounds occur when the letter is not pronounced the way it sounds. Long vowel sounds are created by placing two vowels together or ending the word with an 'E. ' Short vowel sounds happen when a vowel is placed next to a consonant.

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Selam Coward

Professional

Is cake a long vowel?

The long vowel sound is the same as the name of the vowel itself. Follow these rules: Long A sound is AY as in cake. Long O sound is OH as in bone.

Sonata Tristante

Professional

What is the U sound?

This is the /u:/ sound. It is a Vowel sound and it's technical name is the 'Close Back Rounded Vowel'. Remember that the key to pronunciation s physical and the name tells us about how the sound is made physically. In this case your tongue is high and back of your mouth.

Avetik Rizzato

Explainer

Is Cat a long or short vowel?

"A" as in "cat" is a low front pure vowel, and "a" as in paper is a diphthong (two vowels run together) which moves from low to high in the front of the mouth. The same goes for the other "short-long" pairs.

Rongjun Mil

Explainer

Is Apple a long or short vowel?

We'll start again with the letter A.
The short vowel sound for A can be found in words like apple, attitude, cat, actually, and can. Elephant begins with the short vowel sound of E. E's short vowel sound sounds a bit like eh, and features in words like elephant, exciting, excellent, and end.

Geraldine El Farissi

Explainer

Is Cat a short vowel?

Our short vowel key words follow the consonant-vowel-consonant phonetic pattern. When a vowel occurs alone between two consonants we can expect a short vowel sound. In the word 'cat,' c-a-t, the vowel letter a is between two consonants, the 'c' and the 't.

Mahayuba Albis

Pundit

Is bake a short or long vowel?

Examples are “bead”, “mail”, “boat”. Another way of creating a long vowel sound is by putting an 'e' on the end of the word. (“The 'e' on the end makes the vowel say its name. The 'e' is silent.”) Examples are “bake”, “seed”, “hike”, “poke”, “mute”.

Jun Sieper

Pundit

Is blue long or short vowel?

Long “U” sound
Note: this same sound is also spelled in several other ways, such as “oo” (food), “ew” (news), and “ue” (blue).

Noris Sucarrats

Pundit

What is the short vowel rule?

Short-Vowel Rule: When one-syllable words have a vowel in the middle, the vowel usually has a short sound. Two-Vowels Together: When two vowels are next to each other, the first vowel is usually long (the sound is the same as the sound of the letter) and the second vowel is silent.

Zaima Storti

Teacher

Why are vowels important?

The reason that we focus on vowels while singing is that vowels are the most open and also the most beautiful sounds we can make with our voice. Because vowels are the most open sounds, the audience hears them best, and so hears the beauty of your sound, your personality, and the emotion in your song.

Seba Banker

Teacher

What are vowel digraphs?

Vowel digraphs are combination of vowels that combine to make a single vowel sound like the OA in boat, the AI in rain, the EE in feet, the EA in sea, and the OO in moon. (The digraphs AW, EW, OW, OU, and OO as in wood are covered in vowel digraphs unit 2).

Laurea Voxbrunner

Teacher

Are diphthongs long vowels?

In languages with phonemically short and long vowels, diphthongs typically behave like long vowels, and are pronounced with a similar length. In languages with only one phonemic length for pure vowels, however, diphthongs may behave like pure vowels.

Tzvetanka Middleton

Teacher

What are vowels words?

All English words are written with vowel letters in them. These letters are vowels in English: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. It is said that Y is "sometimes" a vowel, because the letter Y represents both vowel and consonant sounds. In the words cry, sky, fly, my and why, letter Y represents the vowel sound /a?/.

Gernot Wiebusch

Reviewer

Is Lemon a short or long vowel?

Since so many words like lemon that have two vowel sounds and were borrowed from French have a short vowel in a VCV string, we will call this the French Lemon Rule: Words that are two syllables long and were borrowed from French will have a short first vowel, even in a VCV string.

Czeslawa Hartukov

Reviewer

Is OO a long vowel sound?

It is the vowel sound in the word soon. The letters oo are the best known spelling of the oo sound. The oo sound is very similar to the long u sound. The only difference between the oo sound and the long u sound is that the long u sound begins with a quick y sound.

Niang Casaña

Reviewer

Is Sun a short or long vowel?

Short a /æ/: cat, short e /?/: bed, short i /?/: sit, short o /?/: top, short u /?/: 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.

Hermelando Groben

Reviewer

What is a long i sound?

A long vowel is a vowel sound that is pronounced the same way as the name of the letter itself.

Benedicta Fran

Supporter

What makes a long vowel?

Long Vowel Rule (2): If a word has one vowel and it comes at the end of the word, that word usually has a long vowel sound. Long Vowel Rule (3): The vowel i and o have the long vowel sound when followed by two or more consonants usually has a long vowel sound.

Hermilo Mambrilla

Supporter

What is the short vowel sound?

Short vowels are vowel sounds that are pronounced in a short form. In RP English the short vowel sounds are those in 'pet', 'pot', 'put', 'putt', 'pat' and 'pit', and the schwa sound. They can be compared with long vowel sounds.

Estebana Katzin (rich)

Supporter

What are R controlled vowels?

When a vowel is followed by an r, the r changes the sound that the vowel makes. The vowel is called an r-controlled vowel. Sometimes teachers refer to the “r” as the “bossy r” because the r “bosses” the vowel to make a new sound. When the “o” is followed by the r, it makes the sound you hear in the word “corn”.

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