The word olive does follow the vowel-consonant-vowel pattern.
Remember that the only vowels in the American Alphabet are A,E,I,O, and U; Everything else is a consonant.
When the word olive is broken down into letters:
O (vowel)
L (consonant)
I (vowel)
V (consonant)
E (vowel)
There are a very large number of English words that fit this pattern. I'm not about to provide an exhaustive list, but "number" is one of them.
Gears Seats Bears Boats Rainy Coats
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The term "prehaps" seems to be a typographical error for "perhaps." If we consider "perhaps," it does not fit neatly into the VCV (vowel-consonant-vowel) or VCCV (vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel) patterns. Instead, it follows a VCV pattern with the "per" as a consonant cluster followed by the vowel "a" and the consonant "ps." Thus, "perhaps" is best represented by the VCCV pattern.
Words that fit the CVVC (Consonant-Vowel-Vowel-Consonant) pattern typically include those where a consonant is followed by two vowels and ends with another consonant. Examples include "bead," "team," "coat," and "rain." In these words, the first vowel often contributes to the syllable structure, while the second vowel can modify the sound of the first or serve as a part of a diphthong. This pattern is common in English and can be found in various word families.
The word "banner" is a VCCV (vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel) structure. It consists of two syllables: "ban" (VCC) and "ner" (VCC). Each syllable contains a vowel followed by two consonants, making it fit the VCCV pattern.
This is a word that is formed of: first a consonant, second a vowel, and third a consonant. Some examples are: can, jam, peg, den, bin, fit, cot, dot, cut, bun.
level, lever, revel, basal, canal, devil, fiver, galas, humor, joker, kilos, lulus, mamas, nasal, papas, radar, sagas, total, vivid, Zimas
Pasta. Paste. Waste. Haste. Taste. Caste. Pasha. Lucky. Lacky. Salty. Silty. Silky. Sulky. Ladle. Table. Sabre. Morse. Terse. Purse. Manta. Canto. Cable. Pulse. Palsy. Pansy. Panty. Candy. Handy. Dirty. Manly. Culpa. Most of these depend on whether or not you consider 'Y' to be a vowel.
There are many, many such words, including cat, dog, fin, gin, dig, hex, and on and on. There are even more if you think of "ch", "ph", "sh", "dg", "th", etc, as consonants, which they are, at least in the spoken word. Then you could include words like then, this, that, bath, both, ...
Because you double the words ending in CVC (consonant vowel consonant ) like adMIT ... train does't fit in this rule, that's why!
The word "fitted" has two "t's" due to its formation from the verb "fit," which is irregular. In English, many verbs that end in a single vowel followed by a consonant double the final consonant when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel, such as "-ed." This doubling helps maintain the short vowel sound in the original word, resulting in "fitted."