Cheese, meet, leak, meat, cheat, cheek, seek, beet, beat, heat, deep, pete (a name), seat, wheat, yeast, reek
Long E = sleep seem peep short E= sled mend tend lend send then
The EA sounds like EE in many words, including easy and please.
Yes. The pronouns he, she, me, and we all have long E sounds.
The first E has a short e sound, the second is unstressed (schwa or uh sound).
Fluffy, donkey, slimy, slinky, stuffy, lofty, crumby, tiny, spiny, softly, slowly, clingy, etc. Most words that end in "y" have a long "e" sound. The "y" in butterfly has a long "i" sound.
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.
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.
No. The E is a short E as in then. Words with W and WH can have unusual vowel sounds.
Long E = sleep seem peep short E= sled mend tend lend send then
Yes, both "bike" and "kite" have long I sounds. The letter "i" is pronounced as /aɪ/ in both words.
The only likely candidate is been, which sounds like bin (short I vowel sound).There are prefixed words such as reenter and preeminent which have both a long E and short E (or rarely I). In some pronunciations, some of these may lose the long E (e.g. preelection).There are also French words, such as sautéed and fiancée, which have a long A sound instead.
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.
The word "precede" has the long e sound, pronounced as "pre-ceed."
Words with long vowel sounds often have a silent "e" at the end (e.g. "make"), a vowel-consonant-e pattern (e.g. "bike"), or a vowel digraph like "ai" or "ee" (e.g. "rain," "see"). Learning common long vowel patterns and practicing identifying them in words can help you figure out words with long vowel sounds.
The words that have the "y" sound like long e are fry, sky, and tiny.
A long e sounds like the way you pronoune the letter e. Words like sheep, queen, tree, bee, eel. A short e sounds more like eh. Words like egg, Edison, explanation, vest, nest. In the dictionary there will be a straight line or dash above a long e (this is a long a -- ā). There will be a flattened U shaped symbol above short e (this is a short a -- ă).
The EA sounds like EE in many words, including easy and please.