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Vowels /i:/

1. /I:/ Seat, meet, Police, Seize, Read

Field, key, quay, People, amoeba

Vowel contrast

/i:/ /I/

seat Sit

deep did

heat hit

read rid

dip deep

1. Find five pairs of words that can show the contrast between the short /I/ and the long /I:/ as in the examples above.

Vowel contrast - /I:/ and /I/

Oral English for schools and colleges. Page 16

A verb is a word that tells or asserts something about a person or thing. Verbs comes from the Latin, verbum, a word. It is so called because it is the most important word in a sentence.

A verb may tell us:

1. What a person or thing does; as, Anthony laughs.

The clock strikes.

2. What is done to a person or thing; Harry is scolded.

The window is broken.
3. What a person or thing is; as The cat is dead.

I feel sorry.

Glass is brittle
A verb is a word used to tell or assert something about some person or thing.

A verb often consists of more than one word as,

The girls were singing.

I have learnt my lesson

The watch has been found.
Auxiliary verbs

These are helping verbs. They can not stand on their own. They help to form the tenses of verbs e.g

I have written it

She has done it

They are going

They were going

She is dancing