The Alphabet
The number of letters in the alphabet.
What is 26?
The definition of a syllable.
What is a word or part of a word made by one opening of the mouth?
The definition of a base word.
What is a plain word with nothing added to it?
The type of syllable that ends in one vowel. The vowel is long; code it with a macron.
What is an open syllable?
This syllable type has an r after the vowel. The vowel makes an unexpected sound.
What is a vowel-r syllable?
The two types of letters in the alphabet.
What are consonants and vowels?
The number of vowel sounds in a syllable.
What is one vowel sound?
The definition of a suffix.
The syllable type that ends in a consonant after a vowel. The vowel is short; code it with a breve.
What is a closed syllable?
The syllable type of the word turf.
What is vowel-r syllable?
The properties of vowel sounds.
What are open and voiced?
The number of syllables in the word flashlight.
The definition of a prefix.
What is a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a base word to change its meaning?
The syllable type with two adjacent vowels that make one sound.
What is a vowel pair syllable?
What is a final stable syllable?
The properties of consonants.
What is blocked or partially blocked by the tongue, teeth, and lips?
The number of syllables in the word January.
What is 4?
The name for a base word plus a suffix.
What is a derivative?
The syllable type that ends in one vowel, one consonant, and a final e. The e is silent, the vowel is long.
What is a Vowel-Consonant-e Syllable?
The syllable type for the word stood.
What is a vowel pair syllable?
The vowels.
a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
What is 3?
Name a suffix.
What is -s, -ing, -ed, -ful, -less, -ness, -est, -en, -ly, -y, -ish, etc...?
This pronunciation of this syllable type is stable and make up a final syllable. Examples of this syllable type are ble, cle, dle, fle, gle, kle, ple, sle, tle, zle, ckle, stle.
What is a final stable syllable?
The syllable type for the word stop.
What is a closed syllable?