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Introduction: Short & Long Vowel Sounds in English
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Short & Long Vowel
Sounds in English
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Introduction: Short & Long Vowel Sounds in English
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This is an introduction to short and long vowels in English-- the most common sounds for each vowel.
It also gives an easy way to remember them using color words with the same sounds. (See the colored borders.)
(Sometimes ‘Y’ acts as a English vowels: vowel instead of ‘I’, and
sometimes ‘W’ is a substitute for ‘U’.)
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Short Vowels: A
The most common sound for each vowel is its “short” sound:
Short ă, pronounced /æ/ as in apple, pan, or Dan’s black hat
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Short Vowels: E
Short ĕ, pronounced /ɛ/ as in elephant, pen, or Ben’s red bedspread
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Short Vowels: I
Short ĭ, pronounced /ɪ/ as in insect, pin, or Rick’s silver fish
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Short Vowels: O
Short ŏ, pronounced /ɒ/: octopus, frog pond, or Tom’s olive box
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Short Vowels: U
Short ŭ, pronounced /ʌ/ as in umbrella, sun, or Doug’s mustard-colored rug
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Doubled Consonants Keep Short Vowels Short when Adding Endings
Verbs with a Short Vowel Verbs with a Long Vowelpresent - past - continuous present - past - continuous
> hop -- hopped – hopping hope -- hoped -- hoping > pin -- pinned – pinning pine – pined -- pining
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Doubled Consonants Keep Short Vowels Short when Adding Endings
Verbs with a Short Vowel Verbs with a Long Vowelpresent - past - continuous present - past - continuous
> plan – planned -- planning plane -- planed -- planing> tap – tapped – tapping tape – taped -- taping
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Long Vowels: A
Long A (ā ), pronounced /eɪ/ as in ape, mates, or Jake
the gray whale
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Long Vowels: E
Long E (ē ), pronounced /iː/ as in eat, meat, or Jean’s
green peas
“Eat some meat, Pete, or some green peas. Try these…”
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Long Vowels: I
Long I (ī), pronounced /aɪ/ as in ice, might or my white light
Might Guy & I try ice climbing?
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Long Vowels: O
Long O (ō), pronounced /oʊ/ as in oats, motor boat, or
Joan’s rosy bow
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Long Vowels: U
Long U (ū), pronounced /juː/ in Utah or music or /u:/
in Bruce’s blue suit.
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Vowels are often long:➢ before a silent E (babe, bike, cute, hope, time, tube.)
Exceptions include: done, give, gone, have, lose, love. (See the lesson on ‘O’ for more.)
He’s such a cute baby! We hope he keeps sleeping. Don’t wake him!
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Vowels are often long:➢ at the end of a syllable (baby, be, future, go, he,
human, I, nature, potato, tomato, provide, retire, we.)
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Vowels are often long:➢ -Igh and -ight are long I (& silent GH): bright, fight, high, light, might, right, sigh.
“The bright lights might wake the baby,” the mother sighed.
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Vowels are often long:➢ in certain digraphs: ai & ay (say, wait), ea (sometimes:
meat, bean), ee (keep, need), oa (coat, soap), oe (goes, toe), & a few times ou or ow (dough, grow), ue (true), ui (fruit).
Wait! Don’t play with the baby. He needs to keep sleeping!
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Common Examples of Short & Long Vowels
A: short A: long at ateback bakecan canemad made & maidtap tape
The men ate baked beans.
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Common Examples of Short & Long Vowels
E: short E: longBen beanmen meanmet mete, meat, & meetred reedset seat
The men ate baked beans.
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Common Examples of Short & Long Vowels I: short I: longdim dimefin finehid hidelit light & litesit sight & site
The fish hid on the sand. Its fins waved like
seaweed in the dim light.
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Common Examples of Short & Long Vowels O: short O: longhop hopenot noterob robeU: short U: longcut cute Note to babysitter: before the kids’ bedtime,
hug huge please fill the tub and get out a tube of
tub tube toothpaste. Do NOT let them make a
huge mess!
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When in doubt, check a dictionary–or don’t worry about it!
All lessons copyright 2017-8 by EnglishHints.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only– or contact EnglishHints.com
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To hear these words pronounced and learn more about short & long vowels– as well as the other vowel sounds of English– see the English
Vowel Sounds & Spellings course: https://englishhints-academy.thinkific.com/courses/english-vowel-sounds-and-spellings
It includes practice and quizzes as well as videos.