A silent letter is the letter in a word that is left not pronounced. Did you know that about 60% of English words has silent letter in them?<\/p>\n
Go over this list of silent letters and few sample words. Make sure to practice pronouncing each word.<\/p>\n
SILENT LETTERS FROM A TO Z<\/strong><\/p>\n A<\/strong> – artistically, logically, musically, romantically, stoically<\/p>\n B<\/strong> – comb, climb, debt, plumber, tomb, subtle, dumb, bomb, doubt, , numb, subpoena, thumb, womb<\/p>\n C<\/strong> – acquire, acquit, blackguard, Connecticut, czar, muscle, scissors, victual<\/p>\n CH<\/strong> – yacht<\/p>\n D<\/strong> – handkerchief, Wednesday (commonly said Wens-day), sandwich, edge, bridge<\/p>\n E<\/strong> – plaque. vegetable (veg’tab’I), bridge, clothes. When on the end of a word, it changes the pronunciation of the word, but the -e is silent.<\/p>\n F<\/strong> – halfpenny<\/p>\n G<\/strong> – align, alight, champagne, diaphragm, gnash, gnaw, high, light,reign, though<\/p>\n GH<\/strong> – right, drought, eight, weigh<\/p>\n H<\/strong> – choir, hour, honour, honest, herb, rhyme, rhythm, thyme, Thailand<\/p>\n I<\/strong> – business, parliament<\/p>\n J<\/strong> – (NONE)<\/p>\n K<\/strong> – blackguard<\/p>\n KN<\/strong> -words, the k is silent: know, knot, knee, knife, knight, knock.<\/p>\n L<\/strong> – calm, folk, salmon, almond, talk, walk, could, should, would, folk, half, calf<\/p>\n M<\/strong> – mnemonic<\/p>\n N<\/strong> – autumn, chimney, column, damn, damn, government, solemn<\/p>\n O<\/strong>– colonel, sophomore, opossum<\/p>\n P<\/strong> – corps, coup, cupboard, pneumonia, psalm, raspberry, receipt, coup<\/p>\n Q<\/strong> – (NONE)<\/p>\n R<\/strong> – butter, finger, surprise<\/p>\n S<\/strong> – aisle, island, debris, isle, patios, viscount<\/p>\n T<\/strong> – beret, Chevrolet, depot, listen, whistle, wrestle, trestle, mortgage, apostle<\/p>\n (When talking fast, the t is very lightly pronounced in words like Christmas, mountain and little)<\/p>\n TH<\/strong> – asthma, isthmus, north, Easter<\/p>\n W<\/strong> – who, whole, write, wrong, two, sword, wrist, answer<\/p>\n X<\/strong> – faux<\/p>\n Y<\/strong> – (NONE)<\/p>\n Z<\/strong> – rendezvous<\/p>\n g<\/strong> – sign, gnat, gnu, foreign<\/p>\n ACTIVITY: <\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Practice reading the words in the list above with your Phone English teachers. A silent letter is the letter in a word that is left not pronounced. Did you know that about 60% of English words has silent letter in them? Go over this list of silent letters and few sample words. Make sure to practice pronouncing each word. SILENT LETTERS FROM A TO Z A – artistically, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework","tag-pronunciation"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n2. Come up with your own list of words with silent letters from A to Z. Then practice pronouncing the words.
\n3. Use the listed words in sentences to practice your pronunciation and sentence construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"