Vowels and Consonants for Class 3

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An alphabet is a set of letters or symbols that helps to make phrases, words, or sentences.

In the English language, there are 26 alphabets (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, ) out of which 5 are known as vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and rest are consonants (b, c, d, f, g, h, j………and so on).

Vowels

A vowel is a speaking sound made when the mouth is open and the tongue is not in touch with the teeth, the apex of the mouth, or other oral structures. This allows for unrestricted air float. A vowel is a sound that is produced by blowing air out of the mouth rather than by closing it or grinding your teeth. It sounds louder than the word. As we can see differences between the sound of vowels and the sound of consonants.

The English vowel pronounced sounds are written in letters in alphabet order. All English phrases have vowel letters (A, E, I, O, U).

Let’s take some examples to apprehend the vowel sounds it is an effortless way to recognize the most important distinction between the vowels and the consonants. First, you have to say it out loud and then observe which letter has extra emphasis or desire in the given words.

Examples:

Dog ”o” is a vowel here.
Mat ”a” is a vowel here.
Tin ”i” is a vowel here.
Pen ”e” is a vowel here.
Fun ”u” is a vowel here.

Types of vowels sounds

Vowels sounds are divided into 2 categories:-

Long vowels sound
Short vowels sound

1. Long vowels sound

A long vowel sounds as long and pronounced as the alphabet. For example, a ‘long A‘ sounds pronounced the letter long “A“. “E” letter is pronounced “long E“.

When two vowels show up following each other in a word, the phrase or a word normally makes a long pronounced sound of the first vowel. The phrases like ‘need‘ makes the long E sound and the phrase ‘tail‘ makes the long A sound.

Examples:

Grapes
Feet
Boat
Team
Band

A phrase where ‘E‘ is at the end of a word or phrase pronounced long as a phrase additionally creates a long vowel sound. This takes place in phrases like ‘bake,’ ‘bike,’ ‘cube,’ and ‘mute‘.

Examples:

Tube
Bite
Kite
Glue
Table

2. Short vowels sound

Vowels no longer provide a lengthy sound in many words. Instead, they emit a short vowel sound. Short vowels normally sound like the following:

”a” in apple
”e” in elephant
”i” in ink
”o” in orange
”u” in umbrella

Consonants

In the English language, there are 26 letters in the alphabet other than five vowels(a, e, i, o, u) remaining letters are called consonants.

A consonant is a sound that is pronounced by using sound by blocking air from flowing out of the mouth with the teeth, tongue, lips, or palate. Consonants may additionally come on their own or in clusters however have to be related to a vowel to structure a syllable (b, c, d, f, g,h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z).

Consonants examples:

Go – “G” is consonant.
For – “F” and “r” are consonants.
Is – “s” is consonant.
Hut – “H” and “t” are consonants.
Can – “C” and “n” are consonants.
Him – “H” and “m” are consonants.
How – “H” and “w” are consonants.
Buy – “B” and “y” are consonants.
To – “T” is consonant.
Tub – “T” and “b” are consonants.