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I would like to know if anyone knows any site or material on separation into syllables in English. I would like to learn about it I never saw anything like that, but I heard that itś difficult to find any material in Brazil.Help me!
1.A one
syllable word is never divided: cat, ball, foot.
2.When a
word has a ck oran x, the word is divided after the x and
ck: nick-el, fox-hole.
3.A
compound word is divided between the two words that make the compound word: in-side,
cup-board, sun-shine, mail-box.
4.When two
or more consonants come between two vowels in a word, it is usually divided
between the first two consonants: sis-ter, but-ter, hun-gry, sup-pose.
5.When a
single consonant comes between two vowels, division is after the consonant if
the vowel is short: cab-in, hab-it, plan-et.
6.When a
single consonant comes between two vowels, division is usually before the
consonant if the vowel is long: e-qual.
7.When two
vowels come together in a word and are sounded separately, divide the word
between the two vowels: ide-a, radi-o, di-et, po-et.
8.A word
that has a prefix is divided between the root word and the prefix: dis-like,
mis-han-dle.
9.When be, de, ex and re are at
the beginning they make a syllable: be-lit-tle, de-frost, ex-pres-i-dent,
re-as-sure.
10.A word
that has a suffix is divided between the root and the suffix: kind-ness,
thank-ful, stuff-ing.
11.When a
word ends in le, preceded bya consonant, the word is divided
before that consonant: pur-ple, fum-ble, mid-dle.
12.When ed comes at the end of a word, it forms a
syllable only when preceded by d or t : start-ed, fund-ed.
13.tion and ture at the end of a word form a syllable: mo-tion,
ma-ture.
14.ible and able are one syllable suffixes: fea-si-ble,
cur-a-ble.
15.When there are two vowels together, they usually make
just one vowel sound [ee, ea, oi, ou, oa, au, aw,, oy, eu, ow, ew, etc�]: steam,
float, found, rain, shoot, feet.
16.The finale e in most words is not pronounced,
and then it does not form a syllable: fine (1 syllable), fi-nance (2
syllables), mis-ad-ven-ture (4 syllables).
