Consonants/j/, /l/, /r/ and /f/
Consonants/l/, /j/, /r/, and /f/
Consonant Sounds are sounds produced from the mouth with an obstruction of air from the lungs. There are 24 consonant sounds in English language. Some of them include:
1. Consonant/j/: This is a voiced consonant and always appear before a vowel. It is mostly spelt with 'y'. E.g young, university, due, yawn, yes, eulogy, view, ewe, new, etc.
2. Consonant/l/: It is called a lateral consonant and it is a voiced consonant. E.g last, class, glue, allow, collide, etc.
3. Consonant /f/: This is a voiceless consonant and when pronounced, it is faint. E.g fan, graph, cough, photograph, physics, difficult, different, fat, ferry etc.
4. Consonant /r/:This sound is called the lateral consonant sound. It is a voiced consonant. Its spelling forms are:
r- rite, freeze, ram, etc.
rr- carry, arrest, ferry, etc.
rh-rhyme, rhapsody, rhema, etc.
EVALUATION
From the words lettered A-D, choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.
- wright (a) fire (b) ban (c) cry (d) there
- rhetoric (a) clear (b) share (c) arrest (d) arm
- farm (a) phantom (b) drama (c) Harry (d) door
- slow (a) palm (b) calm (c) loot (d) but
- callous (a) could (b) should (c) would (d) plate
Comments