Sentences with phrase «up of syllables»

Funēmics breaks the phonological awareness continuum down into simple steps to teach a child: a sentence is made up of words, words are made up of syllables, syllables are made up of sounds (phonemes), and sounds can be manipulated to make new words.

Like any other text, poems are made up of syllables, which create rhythms when spoken.

Arti Bang and Priti Rege of the College of Engineering, in Pune, India, explain that bird songs and calls are made up of syllables and each call and song unique to a given species consists of a group of syllables which in turn are made up of elements.

Not exact matches

We're here today to familiarize you with some of the beauteous syllables enjoyed over the last four years by college football fans, so you don't have to look up on draft night all, «Wait, there's a guy named Barkevious?»

Unlike most Western names, Japanese names are commonly made up of a mixture of separate characters (similar to syllables), each one representing a word or a concept.

After coming up with a list of nonsense syllables, he memorized series of different lengths, uncovering patterns in the time it takes to learn, relearn and forget.

Most striking is the ability of human babies to selectively attend to language, spontaneously babble in syllables and quickly pick up the grammar of the surrounding language to produce novel sentences like «We holded the baby rabbits» and «Hey, Horton heared a Who.»

Sanskrit mantras are said to be particularly sacred because of the sounds and syllables that make up this ancient language.

Write in random sequence on a transparency or chart the syllables that make up a number of different words.

The lessons in Word Warm - ups 3 teach the pronunciation of 30 prefixes, 40 suffixes, a strategy for decoding open and closed syllables and the ə sound in multisyllabic words, and the pronunciation of common Greek and Latin roots.

Word Warm - ups 1 reviews letter / sound correspondences and explicitly teaches the blending of sounds to form one - syllable words.

Besides pointing out the subtle trail of alphabetically arranged capital letters in each poem throughout the book, the author's note expresses Muth's rationale for not restricting himself to «the five - seven - five syllable pattern that many of us grew up learning haiku must be.»

If you feel inclined to brush up on your Chinese pronunciation try visiting pinyinpractice.com (click on the syllables in the middle of the screen to hear how they are supposed to be pronounced).

In the first section, a free - verse poem of dense syllables and vivid images, a prehistoric tribe lacking written language embarks on a ritual of the hunt, climbing into a mountain cave to conjure the magic that will protect them and call up the beasts that will feed them for a season.

Many people speculate that the syllables in this phrase may mimic part of a bird's call, which makes the birds pick up on it more quickly than other words or phrases.

Though veterinarians try hard to explain things in plain English, sometimes we get caught up in the many 5 - syllable words that end in «itis» and speak a cheap knock - off of Latin.

David Pagel: «The written messages that once spun Pittman's stories in many directions have become an unintelligible babble, a mixed - up mélange of letters and syllables, in Cyrillic and English and gibberish, that makes easy reading impossible.

«Uncumberbatchable» was the six syllable term Oliver coined in his warm - up act to describe the uncharming Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is apparently so bereft of likeability that not even the gifted character actor Benedict Cumberbatch can (by Oliver's review) imbue his character with any grace.

But cabbages have heads, so use yours to grasp the essence of a SCC judgment in the 5 -7-5 syllable format, and help me take up Colin's challenge.

Think â $ «a few pleasant words might actually warm up your audience, soften the blow of bad news, or even just hearken to the days when we werenâ $ ™ t all single - syllable corporate jarheads.