welcome to this lesson my name is ronnie
today
i'm going to teach you something that's
important is it
for
doing something with adjectives
it is called
counting syllables now why
would you want to count a syllable
do you like math i hate math
counting syllables are important to make
superlatives and comparative
in adjectives so
i will teach you that in another lesson
so don't worry hold on tight
but the first thing that you have to
know when you're making
superlative or comparative adjectives is
how to actually count a syllable
what is a syllable
basically a syllable is
how long the word is
not
by how many letters it is but how long
you hold the sounds for so
when you have to count syllables it's
very important
that you count the vowel sounds
not the vowels themselves but the vowel
sounds in english
who knows what the vowels are in english
who can say the vowels in english
me oh yes and the vowel sounds in
english are a
e
i
o
and you me you
so
a
e
i
o and u
our friends from
latin america and people who speak
spanish and portuguese you will always
mix up the e and the i
because it's opposite
to help you remember
this you can put
an i above
to help you remember the sound is an i
so
a e i o u are the vowels but
each vowel and vowel combination has a
different sound
so
to count syllables you have to count the
vowel sounds
the shorter words are the easiest
because
one vowel
one syllable
so in this very short word there is one
vowel and one vowel sound so this
cat
has
one syllable
in this word dog
there is again one vowel
the o
so there's one vowel sound
this gets easier
in this word
how many vowels do you see
one uh-oh
sometimes y is considered a vowel
there's a tricky rule and sometimes y so
if you look at this word we have hung
green
the y sounds like an e sound so
hungry there's your vowel there and your
vowel there this has two vowel sounds
and two vowels hungry
oh no
the next word is busy
because it ends in a y the y makes an e
sound
and this makes it uh so busy
again
is two vowels
if you look down at this word beautiful
how many vowels do we have one
two three
four five
now remember don't count the vowels
count the vowel sounds you do not want
to say
to a fool that would be strange
view
full because this word all of these
vowels together make one sound sounds
like you you
ta
this one actually only has
three vowels three vowel sounds but five
vowels so this contains three syllables
this one
how many vowels do you see
a o
a
e
one two three four let's try this
oh it worked there are four vowels
and therefore four syllables
one thing to be very very careful about
when you speak english
is that most of the time the e at the
end of the word
is silent
but when it's an l e sound
it sounds like a o
so because it's l e it's going to be an
extra vowel sound
in contrast to this
if you look at this word
college
this does not end in l e it ends in g e
so this
the e is actually
silent so let's look at this word
how many vowels one two three
but remember the e at the end of the
word is usually silent
so it's called lidge
two syllables
i want you to try and do
these by yourself i will give you a
couple of minutes to try i'll be right
back with the answers
count the vowel sounds
and tell me what you think the answers
are
be back soon
have you finished
are you counting
okay
let's go through
this word first of all
say the word employ
we have how many vowels one two oh
there's y
oh
but this word is imploi
we don't say employ e
we actually use one
two vowels
the oi at the end of the word the o and
the y together is one vowel sound so you
have to think about
if it's two vowels together most of the
time there'll be one vowel sound
next one
in
ploy
e
ah
there's a special trick in english
if there are
two e's together
they will make an e sound at the end of
the word so we have one
two
three four five oh
five vowels but employ e only three
vowel sounds because the o and the y
again make one vowel sound
and the double e
makes an e sound so we have in
ploy e
this says
three syllables
this has two
this is a long word are you ready count
the vowels
five amazing vowels
five amazing vowel sounds
this word is very long the longer the
word
most of the time the more syllables you
want to use
we have done this one college has two
and the last one
we have two syllables
power
we have two vowels
now you might be curious
and may want to study superlative
adjectives and comparatives
if you'd like to do this stay tuned for
my next video goodbye