II. READING OF VOWEL COMBINATIONS
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| Letter combination | Pronunciation | Examples | Exceptions |
| ai / ay ei / ey | [ ei ] | Spain, day, grey, weight | |
| air | [ eə ] | air, chair | |
| au / aw | [ ɔ: ] | Because, awful | Aunt [a:nt], laugh [ la:f ] |
| ee | [ i: ] | See, meet, fee | |
| ea | [ i: ] | Lead, meat | Great [ greit ], break [ breik ], steak [ steik ] |
| [ e ] | Bread, ready | ||
| eer , ear | [ iə ] | Engineer, near | |
| eu / ew | [ ju: ] | Neutral, few | Europe ['juərəp] |
| oo | [ u ] | Book, wood | Blood [ blʌd ] Flood [ flʌd ] |
| [ u : ] | Moon, too | ||
| oi / oy | [ ɔi ] | Point, boy | |
| oor | [ uə ] | Poor, moor | Door [dɔ: ], floor [ flɔ:] |
| our | [ ɔ: ] | Your, course | |
| [ auə ] | Our, flour | ||
| ou | [ au ] | Ground, count | |
| [ ʌ ] | Double, young |
| ow | [ au ] | Brown, now, how | |
| [ əu ] | Flow, window |
Note:There are some other vowel combinations in English ( for ex. ie ,etc ), but their pronunciation is unpredictable. In this case we advise you to look up your dictionary.
Exercise 25.Write down the phonetic symbols and practice reading the words.
[ ] good, wood, foot, blood, book, took;
oo
[ ] moon, stool, food, flood, soon, hoot;
ai / ay[ ] main, pain, fail, aid, bay, nay, say;
eu / ew [ ] few, knew, new, stew, neutral, Europe;
ee [ ] street, fee, feet, meet, beef, bee, sleeve, fleet;
au / aw [ ] August, cause, Paul, autumn, pause, saw, awful, crawl, laugh;
oi / oy [ ] join, loin, foil, joy, coin, voice, rejoice;
air [ ] air, chair, fair;
ei / ey[ ] grey, they, obey, weight;
oor[ ] boor, moor, poor;
eer, ear[ ] cheer, queer, sheer, dear, clear;
[ ] pleasant, health, spread, great, wealth, bread, dreamt;
ea
[ ] read, lead, steak, breathe, sea, dream, please, ease, disease;
[ ] out, bout, account, foul, house, blouse;
ou
[ ] touch, cousin, rough, tough;
[ ] flour, our, sour;
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