hey everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with a quick tip for today our question
is how do I pronounce words that end in the F sound when we make them plural and
to do this what we're going to do is for spelling let's talk about spelling first
we're going to change the letter F to a V and then we're going to add es so for
spelling F changes to V and then we add the es for pronunciation we are going to
change from the F that we make by gently biting either the inside or the outside
of the bottom lip while the air keeps moving out and the voice box is not on
we're going to change that sound to the voiced sound which is the V sound to do
that your mouth is the same gently biting the inside or the outside of your
bottom lip and then the air is going to move out while your voice box is on V so
we have F and V and then you're going to add that Z sound and to do this the tip of
your tongue is either high in your mouth behind your top teeth or slightly
pointing down it is not touching your teeth at all air continues to move out
while you're a voice box is on so we have elf
elves calf calves and we don't pronounce the L sound and calf calf calves and we
don't pronounce the L sound in calves nice knives and again another silent
letter we don't pronounce the K knife knives loaf loaves loaf loaves shelf
--shelves --shelf --shelves wolf wolves wolf wolves and then wife wives
wife wives I don't have a sentence but I'm sure all of you out there do
so put a couple of sentences in the comments so I can see what you come up
with you guys are always so clever I love your sentences so give it a try I
know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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