Syllables in English

作者: ALULA | 2024年3月22日

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A syllable is a unit of sound. A syllable is made up of a vowel sound, and it can be combined with one or more consonant sounds.

For example, the word "big" has 1 syllable. The word "happy" has 2 syllables ("hap", "py"). The word "different" has 3 syllables ("dif", "fe", "rent").

1 unit of sound means that you create the sound by exhaling once from your lung. The word "different" can be spoken with 3 breaths - "dif", "fe", "rent". Be careful about consonants. Many consonants such as "t" in "rent" are weak and almost silent, so they are not a syllable on their own.

Listen to the words, below, and note the number of syllables.

One-Syllable Words
  • Big

  • Sad

  • Shocked

  • Strong

Two-Syllable Words
  • Angry

  • Clean

  • Busy

  • Careful

  • Cloudy

  • Hungry

  • Little

  • Mindful

  • Never

  • Pleasant

  • Polite

  • Scrawny

  • Silly

  • Thoughtful

  • Timely

  • Ugly

  • Worried

Three-Syllable Words
  • Attention

  • Bicycle

  • Determined

  • Expensive

  • Important

  • Interesting

Four-Syllable Words
  • American

  • Canadian

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