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Eblito Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Syllables structure

how do i separate word into syllables?
Vowel have more than one sound, when to use the short or long sound?
  

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You seem to be asking about two different things: syllabification and pronunciation. The easiest solution is to check your dictionary, which will give you both: the syllables: sep·a·rate and the pronunciation: s p -r t

— Mister Micawber

  • You seem to be asking about two different things: syllabification and pronunciation.
  • The easiest solution is to check your dictionary, which will give you both: the syllables: sep·a·rate and the pronunciation: s p -r t
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You seem to be asking about two different things: syllabification and pronunciation. The easiest solution is to check your dictionary, which will give you both:

the syllables: sep·a·rate
and the pronunciation: s
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Yes, i know both of them can be found in the dictionary.

I remeber teacher said something about CVC and sound them out. When i'm reading i don't have the time to look up all the word. When reading in front of the class i can not said "hold on while i look up the word in the dictionary". The teacher can spell the word for me but that just the fishing thing. What i want is to learn how to
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CVC won't help much with English, since its syllables come in almost all permutations:

There are many more words that have two or more syllables.
  • River (2 Ri-ver; CV-CVC)
  • Doctor (2 Doc-tor; CVC-CVC)
  • Happy (2 Hap-py; CVC-CV)
  • Computer (3 Com-pu-ter; CVC-CV-CVC)
  • Beautiful (3 Beau-ti-ful; CV-CV-CVC)
  • Pronunciation (5 Pro-nun-ci-a-tion; CV-CV
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What about the vowel, which sound i should used?
There must have some rules for the vowel.
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