There are a few EA words that have a short E sound.
They include the rhyming words bread, dead, dread, head, lead (substance), read (past tense), spread, stead, thread, and tread.
Other EA words are sweat, threat, breast, deaf, treachery and treacherous.
Oh, what a lovely question! Words like "bread," "head," and "dead" have the short 'a' sound spelled with 'ea'. Just imagine those words as little happy trees in your painting of the English language, adding a touch of warmth and familiarity to your vocabulary garden. Keep on exploring and discovering new words, my friend!
There are a few EA words that have a short E sound. They include the rhyming words bread, dead, dread, head, lead (substance), read (past tense), spread, stead, thread, and tread. Other EA words are sweat, threat, breast, deaf, treachery and treacherous.
There are a few EA words that have a short E sound. They include the rhyming words bread, dead, dread, head, instead, lead (substance), misread/read (past tense), spread, stead, thread, and tread. Other EA words are sweat, threat, breast, deaf, meant, treachery and treacherous.
The E in fed has a short E sound to rhyme with bed, led, and wed, and also with dead, head, and said. Other words that have a short E sound include best, get, men, step, and wept.
Yes. The EA pair has a short E sound, as in death and head.
No, it is a short e vowel sound - otherwise it would sound like the word "sweeter".
The EA pair in head have a short E sound as in hen and fed, to rhyme with bread and dead. The short E sound is also in words including: E words - red, led, beg, men, get, dent, neck, yell, sex E words - end, ebb, edit UE words - guess, guest AI words - said, again
Yes. The EA vowel pair has the short E sound, as in dead and bread (bred). The EA pair can also have a long E sound as in bead (beed) and plead.
No. The EA pair in tread has a short E sound, as in bread and bred. This is one of several exceptions to the usual long E sound of the EA pair, including head, dead, thread and one pronunciation each for the words read and lead.
Yes: the formal version is Day of the Dead.
Alliteration is the poetic device used in the phrase "deeds of dead kings" because of the repetition of the "d" sound in the words "deeds" and "dead."
land, pond, correspond, respond, blond, bold, stand, glad, dead