November 6 Homework

 

VOWEL COMPARISON CONVERSATIONS

 

[ć] as in “hat”    &    [E] as in “get”     &        [ə] as in “hut”

 

A conversation at an auction:

 

A:         I can bet that the hat will get bought.

B:         Which hat are you betting on?

A:         That one.  The hat with the feather and the red rim. 

B:         Well, it might get purchased, but it will sell for under eight dollars.  No

one would ask for more than that.

 

[I]  as in “hit” and [U] as in “put”

 

A conversation in a restaurant:

 

A:         Do you see that woman over there?

B:         That woman with the women in the red hats?

A:         No, the woman with the man in the brown shirt.

B:         There’s no woman with the man in the brown shirt, there is only a woman with other women in red hats. 

A:         Oh, forget it! I was going to tell you that the woman over there is different from the other women here because she is the first woman in the area to get her Women’s League involved in local politics.

 

 


                        as in “taught” and                      as in “tot.

 

Determine which of these two sounds occur in the words below.

 
  1. father
  2. law
  3. caustic
  4. hollow
  5. constant
  6. call
  7. brawl
  8. stop
  9. honor
  10. drawl

 

Try these sentences using the words above.

 

  1. My father’s drawl is awful on a call.
  2. The law honor’s stopping a brawl if it starts.
  3. His honor is hollow if his remarks are caustic.
  4. The father offered a drawn-out, caustic diatribe on his daughter’s wrong-doings.