Long-vowel Sentence Examples

A long vowel when unaccented counts short, thus peccatorem treated as *peccatorem, gave pechadur.

In many varieties of the Greek alphabet this symbol was used, as it always was in Latin, for the long as well as the short o-sound and also for the long vowel (in the Ionic alphabet written ov) which arose from contraction of two vowels or the loss of a consonant (57jXoUTE=677XOere, o'lxovs = oircovs).

The long vowel becomes more rounded as it is being pronounced, so that it ends in a u-sound, though this is not so noticeable in weak syllables like the final syllable of follow.

In second grade, students will learn short-vowel and long-vowel words.

At the end of first grade or beginning in second grade, children are taught short-vowel and long-vowel words as well as consonant blended and r-controlled words.

He paid especial attention to orthography, and sought to differentiate the meanings of cases of like ending by distinctive marks (the apex to indicate a long vowel is attributed to him).