Write sentences using digraphs.
A digraph. A digraph is when two consonants make one sound. "Ch," "sh," and "th" are other examples.
I'm not 100% sure and am happy to be corrected, but this is my understanding of it: Blends are combinations of consonants where you can still hear the two separate sounds, eg. br, cr, pl. This seems counterintuitive to me, as 'blend' implies that you mixing something together so that it is indistinguishable, but apparently that's what a blend is. Digraphs are where two letters are used to represent a single sound - sh, th, wh, ch.
A digraph is a pair of characters or letters that come together to create a phoneme or a series of phonemes that don't correspond to usual values of the combined characters. Another word for it is diagram.
Two consonants that blend together and lose their own individual sounds and create a new unique sound. for example: ch, sh, th chair, shape, though
The digraph ae is almost always pronounced as a long E (e.g. algae). However, words from Scottish, such as hae (have) and brae are usually pronounced with an "ay" sound.
A digraph. A digraph is when two consonants make one sound. "Ch," "sh," and "th" are other examples.
A digraph blend is when two consonants are paired together to create a sound that blends them together. A couple of English examples are "ch" and "th."
A vowel digraph typically makes one sound, which is a unique sound that is different from the individual sounds of the vowels in the digraph. Examples include the "ai" in "rain" making the long /ā/ sound, or the "ea" in "leaf" making the long /ē/ sound.
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A digraph is short for directed graph.
The word digraph is a noun. The plural form is digraphs.
The antonym for "digraph" is "monograph." While a digraph is a combination of two letters representing a single sound, a monograph is a scholarly piece of writing on a specific subject.
Yes, a digraph is a combination of two letters that together represent a single sound or phoneme, which may differ from the sounds of the individual letters forming the digraph. Examples of common digraphs in English include "ch," "sh," and "th."
"Boat" is a word with a vowel digraph, with the "oa" representing a single vowel sound.
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Yes. The digraph OW has a long O vowel sound.
A split digraph is when a vowel digraph is split by a consonant, such as the 'e' at the end of a word making the vowel say its name as in "time" or "hope." It occurs when an 'e' at the end of a word changes the short vowel sound to a long vowel sound.