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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Any help with these questions?

1.) Which of the following words is pronounced with a consonant cluster in Australian English?

A) lean B) flap C) night D) about

2.) Which of the following words is pronounced with a diphthong in Australian English?

A) droop B) swoop C) stretch D) chase

3. Which of the following words contains a digraph representing a consonant sound?

A) shadows B) bikes C) rooms D) around
  

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Anonymous Any help with these questions? First, which do you think, Anon?

— Mister Micawber

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  • First, which do you think, Anon?
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Anonymous Any help with these questions?
First, which do you think, Anon?
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I have no idea, as I don't know what these terms mean. Can anyone help me with what they mean? Then I can try figure it out.
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Firstly, thanks for the links. Unfortunately I still find it hard to grasp the concept but for the question about the consonant clusters, I would predict either "night" or "flap"?

For the diphthong question, I am thinking that the answer may be "chase"?

And I have not much of an idea about the digraph question.
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Well, you seem to be in Adelaide, while I am an American English speaker in Yokohama, so you should know better than I do. While I am aware that our Aussie brothers speak a kind of English, I am not adept at translating it. Nevertheless, as written:

#1 -- only 'flap' possesses a consonant cluster ('fl').
#2 -- I don't know how they abuse any of these 4 words Down Under, but in AmE,
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Mister Micawber. In AmE, the 'ow' of 'shadow' has a simple [ou] sound, but that may not be the answer in AusE.
There's a more obvious answer at the beginning of that word.

'sh', 'ch', and 'th' very often represent a single sound each.
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fivejedjonThere's a more obvious answer at the beginning of that word.
Ah yes, of course—for some reason I was preoccupied with my vowels (somewhat like a hypochondriac).
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