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No, "bath" is not a long vowel word. The 'a' sound in "bath" is a short vowel sound.
The word "cat" has the same vowel sound as "flat".
Math has one syllable as there is only one vowel.
Word 1) 'math' has one vowel letter among a total of 4 letters. The probability of randomly selecting the vowel letter 'a' is P(v) = 1/4. Word 2) 'jokes' has two vowel letters among a total of 5 letters. The probability of randomly selecting a vowel letter is P(v) = 2/5. The probability of randomly selecting a vowel letter from the first word and a vowel letter from the second word is: P(v1,v2) = 1/4 (2/5) = 2/20 = 1/10 = 0.10 = 10.0%
#include<locale> #include<iostream> #include<string> bool is_vowel(const char c) { static const std::string vowels = "AEIOU"; return( vowels.find(toupper(c))<vowels.size() ); } int main() { std::string alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; for(size_t i=0; i<alphabet.size(); ++i) { std::cout<<'\''<<alphabet[i]<<"\' is "; if( !is_vowel( alphabet[i] )) std::cout<<"not "; std::cout<<"a vowel."<<std::endl; } } Output: 'a' is a vowel. 'b' is not a vowel. 'c' is not a vowel. 'd' is not a vowel. 'e' is a vowel. 'f' is not a vowel. 'g' is not a vowel. 'h' is not a vowel. 'i' is a vowel. 'j' is not a vowel. 'k' is not a vowel. 'l' is not a vowel. 'm' is not a vowel. 'n' is not a vowel. 'o' is a vowel. 'p' is not a vowel. 'q' is not a vowel. 'r' is not a vowel. 's' is not a vowel. 't' is not a vowel. 'u' is a vowel. 'v' is not a vowel. 'w' is not a vowel. 'x' is not a vowel. 'y' is not a vowel. 'z' is not a vowel. 'A' is a vowel. 'B' is not a vowel. 'C' is not a vowel. 'D' is not a vowel. 'E' is a vowel. 'F' is not a vowel. 'G' is not a vowel. 'H' is not a vowel. 'I' is a vowel. 'J' is not a vowel. 'K' is not a vowel. 'L' is not a vowel. 'M' is not a vowel. 'N' is not a vowel. 'O' is a vowel. 'P' is not a vowel. 'Q' is not a vowel. 'R' is not a vowel. 'S' is not a vowel. 'T' is not a vowel. 'U' is a vowel. 'V' is not a vowel. 'W' is not a vowel. 'X' is not a vowel. 'Y' is not a vowel. 'Z' is not a vowel.
20% start with a vowel and 80% don't. P.S. I know why your questioning this! Because its in the grade 6 math work book! I looked it up as well!
A bar over a vowel, also known as a macron, typically indicates a long vowel sound in phonetics. It shows that the vowel is pronounced for a longer duration than a short vowel.
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The word "ruby" has a long vowel sound for the letter "u" which is pronounced "oo" like in "blue" or "true".
Vowel teams are a word with two vowel's