Martha Stewart's grandchildren are advanced. According to the entertaining mogul, her daughter Alexis's toddlers, Jude, 3, and Truman, 2, are already quite the linguists. Sections
A syllable is a unit of pronunciation uttered without interruption, loosely, a single sound. All words are made from at least one syllable. Monosyllables are words that have have only one vowel sound; polysyllables have more than one. If a syllable ends with a consonant, it is called a closed syllable. If a syllable ends with a vowel, it is called an open syllable. Patterns of syllables can be shown with C and V (C for 'consonant', V for 'vowel'). Closed syllables are often shown as CVC (such as got), and open syllables as CV (such as go).
A syllable is the sound of a vowel (A, E, I, O, U) that is created when pronouncing the letters A, E, I, O, U, or Y. The letter Y is a vowel only if it creates an A, E, I, O, or U sound. The number of times that you hear the sound of a vowel is the number of syllables in a word. When two (or more) vowels are next to each other, the number of syllables depends on the number of vowel sounds. examples: free (1 syllable), eat (1 syllable), & bio (2 syllables) If a vowel is silent, it is not counted as a syllable. example: fire (1 syllable) Does the word end with le or les?