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Short and Long Vowels - Nguyên âm dài & Nguyên âm ngắn
1. Để phát ra một âm ngắn, ta chỉ cần một nguyên âm.at red it hot up
2. Để phát âm một âm dài bạn phải cho thêm một nguyên âm thứ hai.
Nguyên âm thứ hai này có thế đứng bên cạnh nguyên âm đầu, trong mô hình VVC [vowel, vowel, consonant - Nguyên âm, nguyên âm, phụ âm]
Ví dụ như:
boat, maid, cue, v.v.
Hoặc có thể tách khỏi từ nguyên âm đầu bởi một phụ âm theo mô hình VCV
Ví dụ như: (made,ride, tide, v.v.).
If the second vowel is separated from the first by two spaces, it
does not affect the first one. This is the VCCV pattern in
which the first vowel remains short. Thus, doubling a consonant
can be called "protecting" a short vowel because
it prevents an incoming vowel from getting close enough to
the first one to change its sound from short to long:
maid, made, but madder; dine, diner, but dinner.
Spelling the Sound /k/
This sound can be spelled in any one of four ways:1. c 2. cc1. The
3. k
4. ck
single letter, c , is
the most common spelling. It may be used anywhere in a word:
cat | corn | actor | victim | direct | mica |
scat | bacon | public | cactus | inflict | pecan |
2. Sometimes
the letter c must be doubled
to cc to protect the sound
of a short vowel:
stucco | baccalaureate | hiccups |
Mecca | tobacco | buccaneer |
occupy | raccoon | succulent |
3. The
letter k is substituted
for c if /k/ is followed by an e, i, or y.
kin | make | sketch | poker | kind | risky |
skin | token | skill | keep | liking | flaky |
(Boring
examples? How about kyphosis, kylix, keratosis, and dyskinesia?)
4. Similarly,
the spelling ck, is substituted for cc if the following letter
is an e, i, or y:
lucky | picking | rocking | finicky |
blackest | mackintosh | frolicked | ducking |
Kentucky | picnicking | stocking | Quebecker |
5. The letters, k and
ck are more than substitutes
for c and cc. They are used to spell /k/ at the end of a monosyllable. The
digraph, ck, ALWAYS follows
a short vowel:
sack | duck | lick | stick | wreck | clock |
about yak. Your student will never need it.)
The letter,
k, follows any other sound:
milk | soak | make | bark |
tank | peek | bike | cork |
tusk | hawk | duke | perk |
The Sound, /j/
The sound, /j/ is spelled in three ways: j ge and dge.1. The letter j is usually used
if the sound if followed by an a, o, or u.
just | jam | jungle | injure | major | adjacent |
jog | jar | Japan | jury | job | Benjamin |
adjust | jacket | jolly | jaguar | jump | jalousie |
2. Since
the letter g has the soft
sound of /j/ when it is followed by an e,
i, or y, it
is usually used in this situation:
gentle | ginger | aging | algebra |
Egyptologist | gem | origin | gym |
3. If /j/ follows a short vowel sound, it is usually spelled with
dge. This is because the letter j, is never doubled in English.
badge | ridge | dodge | partridge | gadget |
judge | edge | smudge | judgement | budget |
The Sound, /ch/
The sound/ch/ has two spellings: tch
after a short vowel, ch
anywhere else:"
witch | sketch | botch | satchel |
catch | hatchet | kitchen | escutcheon |
Which,
rich, much, such, touch, bachelor, attach, sandwich, and ostrich.
The Sound /kw/
This sound is ALWAYS spelled with the letters,qu, never anything else.
Using -le
Wordsending in -le, such as
little, require care. If the vowel sound is short, there must
be two consonants between the vowel and the -le. Otherwise,
one consonant is enough.
li tt le | ha nd le | ti ck le | a mp le | people |
bo tt le | pu zz le | cru mb le | a ng le | idle |
bugle | able | poodle | dawdle | needle |
Odds and Ends
1. The
consonants, v, j, k, w,
and x are never doubled.
2. No normal English words ends with the letter v.
A final /v/ is always spelled with ve, no matter what the preceding vowel sound may be:
have | give | sleeve | cove |
receive | love | connive | brave |
Adding Endings
Thereare two kinds of suffixes, those that begin with a vowel and
those that begin with a consonant. As usual, the spelling
problems occur with the vowels:
Vowel Suffixes | Consonant Suffixes | |||
- - - age | - - -ist | - - - ness | - - - cess | |
- - - ant | - - - ish | - - -less | - - -ment | |
- - -ance | - - -ing | - - -ly | - - -ty | |
- - - al | - - -ar | - - -ful | - - -ry | |
- - -ism | - - -o | - - -hood | - - -ward | |
- - -able | - - -on | - - -wise | ||
- - -an | - - -ous | |||
- - - a | - - -or | |||
- - -es | - - -ual | |||
- - -ed | - - -unt | |||
- - -er | - - -um | |||
- - -est | - - -us | |||
- - -y | - - -ive |
1. Words that end in the letter y must have the y changed to i before adding
any suffix:
body - bodily | marry - marriage |
many - manifold | family - familiar |
happy - happiness | puppy - puppies |
beauty - beautiful | vary - various |
company - companion | fury - furious |
plenty - plentiful | merry - merriment |
2. In words that end in a silent e you must drop it before
you add a vowel suffix. The silent e is no longer needed to
make the preceding vowel long as the incoming vowel will do
the trick:
ride - riding | cure - curable | use - usual | age - aging |
fame - famous | force - forcing | refuse - refusal | slice - slicing |
pure - purity | ice - icicle | nose - nosy | convince - convincing |
globe - global | race - racist | pole - polar | offense - offensive |
3. Words that end in an accented short or modified vowel
sound must have the final consonant doubled to protect that
sound when you add a vowel suffix:
Quebec - Quebecker | remit - remittance | confer - conferring | refer - referred |
upset - upsetting | shellac - shellacking | occur - occurred | concur- concurrent |
Note that this doubling is not done if the accent is not on the last syllable. If the word ends in a schwa, there is no need to
"protect" it.
open - opening | organ - organize |
focus - focused | refer - referee |
4. Normally
you drop a silent e before adding a vowel suffix. However,
if the word ends in -ce or -ge and the incoming
vowel is an a, o, or u, you cannot cavalierly toss out that
silent e. It is not useless: it is keeping its left-hand
letter soft, and your a, o, or u will not do
that. Thus:
manage - manageable | peace - peaceable |
courage - courageous | revenge - vengeance |
surge - surgeon | change - changeable |
notice - noticeable | outrage - outrageous |
Gorgeous George bludgeoned a pigeon noticeably! Tsk.
5. Adding consonant suffixes is easy. You just add them. (Of course you must change a final y to i before you add any suffix.)
peace - peaceful | harm - harmless | age - ageless |
pity - pitiful | child - childhood | rifle - riflery |
/sh/
When this sound occurs before a vowel suffix, it is spelled ti, si, or ci.
partial | cautious | patient | vacation |
special | deficient | suspicion | suction |
inertia | delicious | ratio | pension |
musician | physician | optician | quotient |
electrician | nutrition | statistician | expulsion |
/ee/ before a vowel suffix
When /ee/ precedes a vowel suffix, it is usually spelled with the letter i:
Indian | obvious | medium |
ingredient | zodiac | material |
Spelling Determined by Word Meaning
1. Mist and missed sound alike, as do band and banned. To determine
the spelling, remember that -ed
is a past-tense tending.
- The
mist drifted into the harbor. - I nearly
missed my bus. - The
movie was banned in Boston. - The
band played on.
2. The
endings of dentist and finest sound alike. Deciding
which one to use can be tricky. One rule helps but doesn't
cover all cases:
- --ist
is a suffix meaning someone who does something:
- artist
- machinist
- druggist - --est
is the ending used on superlative adjectives:
finest - sweetest - longest
sounds at the end of musician and condition sound alike.
but....
- cian always means a person, where...
- tion
or sion are never used for people.
4. How do you tell whether to use tion or sion?
- If
the root word ends in /t/, use -tion: complete, completion - If
the root word ends in /s/ or /d/, use sion: extend,
extension
suppress, suppression - If
the sound of the last syllable is the "heavy"
sound of /zhun/ rather than the light sound, /shun/, use
s: confusion, vision, adhesion
Exception:
The ending, --mit becomes -mission:
permit - permission | omit - omission |
submit - submission | commit - commission |
The Hiss
1. The
letter s between vowels
sounds like a z:
nose | result | noise |
present | partisan | tease |
preside | resound | reserve |
2. The light "hissy" sound is spelled with either
ss or ce. Predictably, ss, like any proper doubled consonant, follows
accented short vowels. Soft c is used anywhere else. (A soft
c is one that is followed by e, i, or y).
notice | reticent | massive | bicycle |
recent | gossip | russet | rejoice |
essence | vessel | discuss | pass |
3. The plural ending is always spelled with a single letter
s unless you can hear a new syllable on the plural word. In
that case, use -es:
loss, losses | bank, banks | twitch, twitches | tree, trees |
box, boxes | list, lists | judge, judges |
No compendium of spelling rules would be complete with the
most important rule of all:
WHEN IN DOUBT, ASK (or look it up)
But ask first - it's quicker.
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