Sentences with phrase «single vowel»

In 2008, Robert Beck, motivated by developments in his art making, conducted a seemingly simple maneuver: he changed his last name by a single vowel, from e to u.

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It appears to be a natural progression that stressed vowels become dipthongs (where two vowels are pronounced with a single syllable).

There was the feral teen assassin raised in a frozen wilderness in Joe Wright's Hanna; a southern gothic drifter in Ryan Gosling's neon - drenched noir fairytale Lost River; a 200 - year - old vampire in Neil Jordan's Byzantium; a deeply homesick Irish immigrant in John Crowley's Brooklyn; and the solemn upper - class English girl with impeccable clipped vowels whose single wicked lie precipitates tragedy in Atonement, a role that won her her first Oscar nomination aged just 13.

Once young children progress beyond writing simple consonant - vowel - consonant words, they can be helped to discover that English spelling has never just been about single letter to sound translation.

Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single - syllable words.

If you can begin to read the invented spelling because it has the consonants and letter - name vowels and there is a mixture of letters that represent more than just a single syllable (example: cmt for cement or apl for apple), the child is at Level III.

Or, it could be beneficial to spend small group time practicing a single Word Attack strategy (e.g. practice flipping the vowel sounds from short to long).