Scholar's JUNIOR ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION || Lesson 2 : Vowels and Consonants Page 18

EXERCISES

Exercise 1. Write against each letter whether it is a vowel, consonant, semi-consonant or semi-vowel:

    W - semi-vowel

    a - vowel

    q - consonant

    1 - consonant

    P - consonant

    X - consonant

    d - consonant

    0 - vowel

    f - consonant

    e - vowel

    y - semi-vowel

    u - semi-consonant

    b - consonant

Exercise 2. Put a vowel in each blank to make a word:

1. c_n

Ans: can 

2. f_r

Ans: for

3. r_n

Ans: ran

4. p_n

Ans: pen

5. c_w

Ans: cow

6. tr_p

Ans: trap

7. st_ck

Ans: stick

8 l_mp

Ans: lamp

9. k_ll

Ans: kill

10. c_rt

Ans: cart

11. f_n

Ans: fan

12. h_pp-n

Ans: happen

13. s_d

Ans: sad

14. l_nd

Ans: land

15. d_sk

Ans: desk

16. l_ss_n

Ans: lesson

17. j_g

Ans: jug

18. m_n

Ans: man

19. d y

Ans: day

20. c_rp_t

Ans: carpet

21. cl_th

Ans: cloth

22. _nk

Ans: ink

23. p-p_r

Ans: paper

24. b_ll

Ans: bill

25. f_nd

Ans: find

26. pr_p_r

Ans: proper

27. br_ng

Ans: bring

28. c_p_

Ans: 

29. c_pe

Ans: cope

30. bl_nk

Ans: blink

31. b_sk

Ans: bisk

32. p_nc_l

Ans: pencil

34. r_nd

Ans:

35. c_rry

Ans: carry

36. t_lk

Ans: talk

Exercise 3. Put a semi-vowel in each blank to make a word:

1. fe_

Ans: few

2. e_e

Ans: eye

3. fl_

Ans: flow

4. h_mn

Ans: hymn

5. la_

Ans: lay

6. st_

Ans: sty

7. slo_

Ans: slow

8. ne_s

Ans: news

9. se_n

Ans: sewn

10. bro_n

Ans: brown

11. st_le

Ans: style

12. fr_

Ans: fry

Exercise 4. Put a consonant in each blank to make a word:

1. __as

Ans: gas

2. __ear

Ans: near

3. ca__in

Ans: cabin

4. ru__ee

Ans: rupee

5. ta__le

Ans: table

6. chai__

Ans: chair

7. gra__e

Ans: grace

8. w__y

Ans: why

9. whe__e

Ans: whele

10. p__y

Ans:

11. bul__ock

Ans: bullock

12. pla__e

Ans: place

13. bea__

Ans: beak

14. af__er

Ans: after

15. lio__

Ans: lion

16. wa__ch

Ans: watch

17. hu__an

Ans: human

18. hou__d

Ans:

19. ca__ch

Ans: catch

20. ca__om

Ans: carrom

Exercise 5. Write five words u sounding as a semi-consonant.

Ans: Unicorn, Unicycle, Unique,Usage

Uplift, Usher, Utter

Exercise 6. Divide each of these words into syllables:

father, bullock, village, bazaar,

grumbling, gently, railway, collar

yesterday, silently, holiday, paper

overcoat, umbrella, recommend

sorrowful, dinner, indifferent,

Saturday, Swift

Ans:

father: Fa-ther

bullock: Bul-lock

village: Vil-lage

bazaar: Ba-zaar

grumbling: Grum-bling

gently: Gent-ly

railway: Rail-way

collar: Col-lar

yesterday: Yes-ter-day

silently: Si-lent-ly

holiday: Hol-i-day

paper: Pa-per

overcoat: O-ver-coat

umbrella: Um-brel-la

recommend: Rec-om-mend

sorrowful: Sor-row-ful

dinner: Din-ner

indifferent: In-dif-fer-ent

Saturday: Sat-ur-day

Swift: Swift

Exercise 7. Fill up the blanks:

1. Five vowels of the English language are it's very _____.

Ans: essential

2. While  speaking a _____, breath emerges non-stop from the mouth.

Ans: word

3. As a semi-consonant, u sounds as ____.

Ans: w

4. Semi-vowels and semi-consonant have  a _____ character.

Ans: transitional

5. A word with only one vowel sound is called ____.

Ans: monophthong

Exercise 8. Answer these questions:

1. What is a vowel? How many vowels are there in English? Name them.

Ans: A vowel is a letter standing for an open sound that can be spoken independently.

There are five (5) vowels in English.

They are - a, e, i, o, u

2. What is semi-vowel ? How many are they in all? Name them.

Ans: Semi - vowel are the letters that sometimes sound as vowel and sometimes as non-vowels.

There are two semi-vowels in all.

They are - w and y.

3. What is a consonant? How many are there in all? Name them.

Ans: A consonant is a letter that can sound with the help of some vowel or semi-vowel only.

There are twenty one consonants in all.

They are -- b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z

4. What is syllable?

Ans: A single vowel or a group of letters with one vowel-sound is called a syllable.

Exercise 9.

(a) four monosyllabic words

(A monosyllabic word is a word that consists of only one syllable.)

Ans: Hat, Jam, Pen, Bed, Box, Cat

Dog, Run, Cup, Sun.

(b) four bisyllabic words

(A bisyllabic word is a word that consists of two syllables.)

Ans: Bicycle, Kitchen, Sunset, Rabbit

Elephant, Apple, Table, Window,

Happy, Pencil

(c) four trisyllabic words

(A trisyllabic word is a word that consists of three syllables.)

Ans: Happiness, Remember,Delicious, Adventure, Beautiful, Elephant, University, Chocolate, Telephone, Butterfly,

(d) four multisyllabic words:

(A multisyllabic word is a word 

that consists of more than one syllable.)

Ans: University, Photography,

Celebrate, Imagination, Participate, Communication, Television,Interesting

Conversation, Opportunity