Class 6 || Scholar's JUNIOR ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION || Section I | Unit I || Lesson 2 : Vowels and Consonants

Exercise 1. Write against each letter whether it is a vowel, consonant, semi-consonant or semi-vowel:

g - consonant d - consonant e - vowel f - consonant y - semi vowel u - vowel b - consonant w - semi vowel a - vowel q - consonant l - consonant p - consonant o - vowel x - consonant

    g - consonant

    d - consonant

    e - vowel

    f - consonant

    y - semi vowel

    u - vowel

    b - consonant

    w - semi vowel

    a - vowel

    q - consonant

    l - consonant

    p - consonant

    o - vowel

    x - consonant

Exercise 2. Put a vowel in each blank to make a word:

    1. c_n
    Ans: can
 
    2. f_r
    Ans: for
 
    3. r_n
    Ans: ran
 
    4. p_n
    Ans: pen
 
    5. c_w
    Ans: cow
 
    6. tr_p
    Ans: trap
 
    7. st_ck
    Ans: stick
 
    8 l_mp
    Ans: lamp
 
    9. k_ll
    Ans: kill

    10. c_rt
    Ans: cart
 
    11. f_n
    Ans: fan
 
    12. h_pp-n
    Ans: happen
 
    13. s_d
    Ans: sad
 
    14. l_nd
    Ans: land
 
    15. d_sk
    Ans: desk
 
    16. l_ss_n
    Ans: lesson
 
    17. j_g
    Ans: jug
 
    18. m_n
    Ans: man
 
    19. d y
    Ans: day
 
    20. c_rp_t
    Ans: carpet
 
    21. cl_th
    Ans: cloth
 
    22. _nk
    Ans: ink
 
    23. p-p_r
    Ans: paper
 
    24. b_ll
    Ans: bill
 
    25. f_nd
    Ans: find
 
    26. pr_p_r
    Ans: proper
 
    27. br_ng
    Ans: bring
 
    28. c_p_
    Ans:
 
    29. c_pe
    Ans: cope
 
    30. bl_nk
    Ans: blink
 
    31. b_sk
    Ans: bisk
 
    32. p_nc_l
    Ans: pencil
 
    34. r_nd
    Ans:
 
    35. c_rry
    Ans: carry
 
    36. t_lk
    Ans: talk
 
Exercise 3. Put a semi-vowel in each blank to make a word:

    1. fe_
    Ans: few
 
    2. e_e
    Ans: eye
 
    3. fl_
    Ans: flow
 
    4. h_mn
    Ans: hymn
 
    5. la_
    Ans: lay
 
    6. st_
    Ans: sty
 
    7. slo_
    Ans: slow

 
    8. ne_s
    Ans: news
 
    9. se_n
    Ans: sewn
 
    10. bro_n
    Ans: brown
 
    11. st_le
    Ans: style
 
    12. fr_
    Ans: fry
 

Exercise 4. Put a consonant in each blank to make a word:
    1. __as
    Ans: gas
 
    2. __ear
    Ans: near
 
    3. ca__in
    Ans: cabin
 
    4. ru__ee
    Ans: rupee
 
    5. ta__le
    Ans: table
 
    6. chai__
    Ans: chair
 
    7. gra__e
    Ans: grace
 
    8. w__y
    Ans: why
 
    9. whe__e
    Ans: whele
 
    10. p__y
    Ans:
 
    11. bul__ock
    Ans: bullock
 
    12. pla__e
    Ans: place
 
    13. bea__
    Ans: beak
 
    14. af__er
    Ans: after
 
    15. lio__
    Ans: lion
 
    16. wa__ch
    Ans: watch
 
    17. hu__an
    Ans: human
 
    18. hou__d
    Ans:
 
    19. ca__ch
    Ans: catch
 
    20. ca__om
    Ans: carrom
 
Exercise 5. Write five words u sounding as a semi-consonant.
Ans: Unicorn, Unicycle, Unique, Usage, Uplift, Usher, Utter
 
Exercise 6. Divide each of these words into syllables:

father, bullock, village, bazaar, grumbling, gently, railway, collar yesterday, silently, holiday, paper overcoat, umbrella, recommend sorrowful, dinner, indifferent, Saturday, Swift.

Ans:
father: Fa-ther

bullock: Bul-lock

village: Vil-lage

bazaar: Ba-zaar

grumbling: Grum-bling

gently: Gent-ly

railway: Rail-way

collar: Col-lar

yesterday: Yes-ter-day

silently: Si-lent-ly

holiday: Hol-i-day

paper: Pa-per

overcoat: O-ver-coat

umbrella: Um-brel-la

recommend: Rec-om-mend

sorrowful: Sor-row-ful

dinner: Din-ner

indifferent: In-dif-fer-ent

Saturday: Sat-ur-day

Swift: Swift
 
Exercise 7. Fill up the blanks:
1. Five vowels of the English language are it's very _____.
Ans: essential
 
2. While  speaking a _____, breath emerges non-stop from the mouth.
Ans: word
 
3. As a semi-consonant, u sounds as ____.
Ans: w
 
4. Semi-vowels and semi-consonant have  a _____ character.
Ans: transitional
 
5. A word with only one vowel sound is called ____.
Ans: monophthong
 
 
Exercise 8. Answer these questions:
1. What is a vowel? How many vowels are there in English? Name them.
Ans: A vowel is a letter standing for an open sound that can be spoken independently.

    There are five (5) vowels in English.

    They are - a, e, i, o, u
 
2. What is semi-vowel ? How many are they in all? Name them.
Ans: Semi - vowel are the letters that sometimes sound as vowel and sometimes as non-vowels.

    There are two semi-vowels in all.

    They are - w and y.
 
3. What is a consonant? How many are there in all? Name them.
Ans: A consonant is a letter that can sound with the help of some vowel or semi-vowel only.
 
There are twenty one consonants in all.
 
They are -- b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
 
4. What is syllable?
Ans: A single vowel or a group of letters with one vowel-sound is called a syllable.
 
Exercise 9.
(a) four monosyllabic words
(A monosyllabic word is a word that consists of only one syllable.)
Ans: Hat, Jam, Pen, Bed, Box, Cat
Dog, Run, Cup, Sun.
 
(b) four bisyllabic words
(A bisyllabic word is a word that consists of two syllables.)
Ans: Bicycle, Kitchen, Sunset, Rabbit
Elephant, Apple, Table, Window,
Happy, Pencil
 
(c) four trisyllabic words
(A trisyllabic word is a word that consists of three syllables.)
Ans: Happiness, Remember, Delicious, Adventure, Beautiful, Elephant, University, Chocolate, Telephone, Butterfly,
 
(d) four multisyllabic words:
(A multisyllabic word is a word
that consists of more than one syllable.)
Ans: University, Photography,
Celebrate, Imagination, Participate, Communication, Television, Interesting
Conversation, Opportunity