The word "tangerine" is a VCCV (vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel) structure. It can be broken down into syllables as "tan-ger-ine," where "tan" and "ger" are VCC and "ine" is V. Thus, it follows the VCCV pattern.
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"Distance" is a VCCV word, with the short vowel 'i' sound in the first syllable and the 'e' sound in the second syllable.
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