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No, the words then and there do not have long e sounds. Then has a short e, and there, rhymes with air, has a short a.
Yes. The I is long in bike as in like. The I is long in kite as in white. The E's are silent.
Rain and cape have long A sounds; ran and cap have short A's. Bead and neat have long E sounds; bed and net have short E's. Pile and ride have long I sounds; pill and rid have short I's. Hope and wrote have long O sounds; hop and rot have short O's. Mute and pure have long U sounds; mutt and purr have short U's.
There are I words with a silent E, such as bite, dime, and while. There are I words spelled with GH such as high, sigh, light, and right. There are I words that begin with the prefix bi- which virtually always sounds like BY, or tri- which sounds like TRY. Examples are binary, bimonthly, and trimester.
Some examples of critical vowel sounds with the long "i" sound include words like "cry," "flight," "pie," and "sight." These words feature the "i" sound pronounced as a long vowel with the "i" sound.
A long vowel sound is one that says the name of the letter (U can be OO or YOO). The sounds are ay, ee, eye, oh, and oo/yoo. For example, age, ache and able are all long A words.
The vowel sounds are usually neither short or long sounds, and they are different. -- The OU pair in out has an OW diphthong sound, as in pout, doubt, and words like cow. -- The OU pair in your has the "caret O" (OR or British AW sound) or alternately a long O followed by R.
Some examples of words with a long i vowel sound are: kite, time, like, and lime.
Two-syllable words: The B words bicycle, binary, and goodbye all have long i sounds (the Y in goodbye). The words biased, science, fiery, eyeball, and buyer all have long i sounds created by vowel pairs.
The long A "says its name" (ay as in day). The short A is an "ah" sound as in apple and cat. *In some pronunciations it can be different, as for the words bad, crab, and last. This can be heard as the different sounds in the words cab and cabin.
No, the words then and there do not have long e sounds. Then has a short e, and there, rhymes with air, has a short a.
Words that have the letter "e" but sound like "a" are known as "long a" vowel sounds. Examples include "ate," "cake," and "made." In these words, the letter "e" is followed by a silent "e" or another vowel that changes its pronunciation to the long "a" sound.