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In today’s lesson we are going to take a great look at pure vowel.
A vowel is a sound produced by the vocal cords with little restriction of the oral cavity, from the sound of a syllable.
Following is a list of 12 pure vowel sounds with 10 examples each:
| Vowel Sound | Example Words |
| /i:/ | Me, these, need, be, keep, deep, sheep, Jeep, beep, eat, feel, see, meet, deal, read, beat, peak, seek, heap, leap, feet, seat, heel, keen, seen, teen, leave |
| /?/ | With, this, if, think, link, wink, rink, sink, big, six, live, since, miss, wrist, lift, pit, sit, pick, bill, fill, till, him, pin, tin, win, bid, did |
| /?/ | Put, Would, Look, Woman, Hook, Nook, Food, Fool, Cool, Hue, Ooze, Moose, Boot, Cook, Rook, Took, Good |
| /u:/ | To, You, New, Who |
| /e/ | Get, When, Well, Very, Bed, Said, Leg, Hell, Hem, Ben, Pen, Den, Ten, Men, Bend, Lend, Send, Bet, Met, Pet, Set, Mess, Wreck, Peck, Letter, Better |
| /?/ | The, About, Could, Us |
| /?:/ | Her, Work, Learn, Word, Burn, Turn, Firm, Bird, Curd, Curse, Curt, Shirt, Turk, Curl, Hurl, Earl, Pearl, Sir, Worm, worth, Fir, Stir, Sir, Occur, Purr |
| /?:/ | Or, Also, More, Call, All, Mall, Hall, Shall, Fall, Tall, Wall, Paul, War, Ward, Warm, Reward, Walk, Wart |
| /æ/ | Have, That, As, Can, Sad, bad, Bag, Lag, Hal, Ham, Ban, Pan, Dan, Tan, Man, Band, Land, Sand, Bat, Mat, Pat, Sat, Mass, Rack, Pack, Latter, Batter |
| /?/ | But, Up, One, Much |
| /?:/ | Start, Ask, Large, After |
| /?/ | Of, On, From, Not |
Pronouncing words is a physical activity. You can go through these sounds whenever you need to think about these. In all the different ways of pronunciation, the position of your tongue would change.
