Grade 8 Flashcards

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What do the vowels do?

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They add Beauty musicality and flow to our speech

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What are the vowels?

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A E I O U

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How are vowels formed?

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Free passage of air through the mouth shaped by the tongue and the lips

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What is a Monophthongs?

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A sound made with one shaping of tongue and lips

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What are Monophthongs divided into?

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Long - he saw her last move

Short - the black pen is not much good

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How are vowels divided?

A

Monophthongs

Diphthongs

Triphthongs

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What is a diphthong?

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Made up of two shapes and two sounds

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How are diphthongs divided?

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Pure diphthong - long and short
- my new brown toy

Vanish diphthong - two short
- woe day

Murmur diphthong - Monophthong and the neutral
Vowel
- pear fear

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8
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What is a triphthong?

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A long sound a short sound and the neutral vowel

Fire choir power cure

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9
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What is resonance?

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The amplification of the voice

Mouth

Sinuses

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