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    Marie Angeli P.

    Buted I-17

    English Consonant Sounds


    Consonant letters and their sounds
    A consonant letter usually represents one consonant sound. Some consonant letters, for example, c, g, s, can represent two different consonant sounds.

    Letters b c d f g h j k l m n p q (qu) r s t v w x z

    Sounds [b] [s] [k] [d] [f] [g] [j] [h] [-] [j] [k] [l] [m] [n] [p] [kw] [k] [r] [s] [z] [t] [v] [w] [ks] [gz] [z] [z] [ts]

    Examples baby, best, buy, bring, blind, absent, about, number, labor, robber, tub center, cellar, cigarette, cinema, agency, notice; cake, come, cucumber, clean, cry, scratch, act, panic day, dear, die, door, duty, admire, hidden, lady, kind, ride, ended fast, female, five, forest, fund, fry, flight, often, deaf, cuff game, get, go, gun, great, global, giggle, ago, begin, dog, egg; general, gin, giant, agent, suggest, Egypt, energy, huge, manage hair, help, history, home, hotel, hunt, behind, inherit; hour, honor, honest, heir, vehicle, Sarah jam, Jane, jet, jelly, Jim, jingle, joke, John, June, just Kate, kind, kill, kilogram, sky, blanket, break, take, look late, let, live, alone, close, slim, please, old, nicely, table, file, all make, men, mind, mother, must, my, common, summer, name, form, team napkin, never, night, no, nuclear, funny, student, kindness, ton, sun paper, person, pick, pour, public, repair, apple, keep, top, crisp quality, question, quite, quote, equal, require; unique, technique, antique, grotesque rain, red, rise, brief, grow, scream, truck, arrive, hurry, turn, more, car send, simple, song, system, street, lost, kiss, release; cause, present, reason, realism, advise, always, is, was task, tell, time, tone, tune, hotel, attentive, student, boat, rest vast, vein, vivid, voice, even, review, invest, give, move, active wall, war, way, west, wind, word, would, swear, swim, twenty, twist exercise, exchange, expect, ex-wife, axis, fix, relax; exam, exact, executive, exert, exist, exit, exult; Xenon, Xerox, xenophobia, xylophone zero, zoo, horizon, puzzle, crazy, organize, quiz, jazz; pizza, Mozart, Nazi, waltz

    Note 1: The letter Y


    The letter Y can function as a vowel or as a consonant. As a vowel, Y has the vowel sounds [i], [ai]. As a consonant, Y has the consonant sound [y] (i.e., a semivowel sound), usually at the beginning of the word and only in the syllable before a vowel. [i]: baby, hurry, lyrics, mystery; [ai]: by, try, rely, nylon, type; [y]: yacht, yard, year, yes, yet, yield, you, young, Yukon.

    Note 2: The letter W


    The letter W represents the vowel sound [u:] in the diphthongs [au] and [ou]: now, how, owl, brown; low, own, bowl. The -s/es ending of nouns and verbs
    After a voiceless consonant: [s] After a voiced consonant or vowel: [z] After the letters s, z, x, ch, tch, ge, dge, sh: [iz]

    [s] tapes [teips], streets [stri:ts], parks [pa:rks], chiefs [chi:fs], myths [miths] (he) grips [grips], writes [raits], takes [teiks], sniffs [snifs] Pip's [pips], Kate's [keits], Mike's [maiks], Jeff's [jefs], Seth's [seths]

    [z] ribs [ribz], kids [kidz], legs [legz], leaves [li:vz], clothes [klouthz], girls, games, cars, boys, pies [paiz], cows [kauz], cities ['sitiz] (he) robs [robz], reads [ri:dz], digs [digz], saves [seivz], falls, plans, swims, offers, plays, cries, goes [gouz], copies ['kopiz] Abe's [eibz], Fred's [fredz], Meg's [megz], Olive's ['olivz], Ben's [benz], Molly's ['moliz], Anna's

    [iz] pieces ['pi:siz], roses ['rouziz], prizes ['praiziz], boxes ['boksiz], coaches ['kouchiz], bridges ['brijiz], dishes ['dishiz] (he) kisses ['kisiz], loses ['lu:ziz], relaxes, catches, judges, manages, flashes, washes, rouges Chris's ['krisiz], Tess's ['tesiz], Rose's ['rouziz], Liz's ['liziz], Rex's ['reksiz], George's ['jo:rjiz]

    The -ed ending of verbs

    After a voiceless consonant: [t] After a voiced consonant or vowel: [d] After the letters t, d: [id]

    [t] stopped [stopt], liked [laikt], coughed [ko:ft], crossed [cro:st], released [ri'li:st], reached [ri:cht], washed [wosht]

    [d] robbed [robd], saved [seivd], seized [si:zd], called [ko:ld], planned, occurred, bathed [beithd], managed, played, tried, studied

    [id] wanted ['wo:ntid], hated ['heitid], counted ['kauntid], started, needed [ni:did], loaded ['loudid], folded, added

    Consonant combinations
    Letters cc ch tch ch (Latin, Greek) ch (French) ck dge gh gu ng ph qu sc sch sh th wh xh Sounds [ks] [k] [ch] [k] [sh] [k] [j] [g] [f] [-] [g] [gw] [ng] [ng+g] [f] [kw] [k] [s] [sk] [sk] [sh] [sh] [th] [th] [w] [h] [ks] Examples accent, accept, access, eccentric, accident; accommodate, account, accuse, occur, acclaim chain, check, chief, choose, teacher, much, church; kitchen, catch, match, watch, pitch, stretch character, chemical, Chris, archive, mechanic, technical, ache; champagne, charlatan, chef, chic, machine, cache black, pack, deck, kick, pick, cracker, pocket, rocket bridge, edge, judge, knowledge, budget, badger ghost, ghastly, Ghana, ghetto; cough, enough, rough, tough, laugh; though, through, weigh, neighbor, bought, daughter guard, guess, guest, guide, guitar, dialogue; language, linguistics, Guatemala, Nicaragua king, sing, singer, singing, bang, long, wrong, tongue; finger, anger, angry, longer, longest, single phone, photograph, phrase, phenomenon, biography quality, question, quite, quote, equal, require; unique, technique, antique, grotesque science, scissors, scene, scent, scythe; scan, scandal, scare, score, Scotch, scuba school, scholar, scheme, schedule; schnauzer, schedule share, she, shine, shoe, fish, cash, push, punish thank, thick, think, thought, thunder, author, breath, bath; this, that, then, though, father, brother, breathe, bathe what, when, where, which, while, why, whale, wheel, white; who, whom, whose, whole exhibition, exhumation, exhume, exhale;

    [gz] With silent letters bt, pt kn, gn, pn mb, lm ps rh wr Letters in the suffix ti, ci, si, su si, su Sounds [t] [n] [m] [s] [r] [r] Sounds [sh] [zh]

    exhaust, exhibit, exhilarate, exhume, exhale Examples doubt, debt, subtle; receipt, pterodactyl knee, knife, know; gnome, sign, foreign; pneumonia, pneumatic lamb, climb, bomb, comb, tomb; calm, palm, salmon psalm, pseudonym, psychologist, psychiatrist rhapsody, rhetoric, rheumatism, rhythm, rhyme wrap, wreck, wrestle, wrinkle, wrist, write, wrong Examples nation, patient, special, vicious, pension, Asia, sensual, pressure vision, fusion, Asia, usual, visual, measure, pleasure

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