THE SCHWA SOUND /ə/

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 THE SCHWA SOUND/Ə/
To make the /ə/ sound, the centre of your tongue is raised towards the area between the hard and soft parts of the roof of your mouth. Your lips are neutrally spread and no firm contact is made between the sides of your tongue and your upper teeth when you say /ə/. The schwa sound /ə/ is a short vowel sound.

Its spelling forms are:

a- about, above, extra,

e- latent, patent, garden, etc.

er- butter, alter, daughter, cater, shelter, paper,

re- metre, litre, centre,lustre, etc.

i- possible, feasible, invisible, edible, etc.

o- police, pilot, oblige, zealot, offend,etc.

or- pastor, horror, tailor, doctor, sailor, manor, etc.

our- colour, rigour, labour, favour, parlour, neighbour, etc.

ure- measure, figure, future, nature, treasure, etc.

ou- jealous l, porous, riotous, frivolous, nervous, riotous, etc.

u- support, succumb, etc.

Evaluation:

Give five words in which the vowel /ə/ are spelt as 'er'.

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