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Learning to spell English words family by family seems to be the most logical way to approach this subject, so we shall continue. It will be YOUR responsibility to learn and practice the pronunciation of the words and to use a dictionary to be sure you know the meanings of the words. All of the following words contain the Long O sound.
| -ope Family | -oap Family | -oat Family | -ote Family | -oan Family | -one Family |
| cope | soap | boat | dote | Joan | bone |
dope |
coat | emote | loan | cone | |
| hope | goat | mote | moan | hone | |
| lope |
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moat | note | roan | pone |
| mope | float | rote | tone | ||
| Pope | gloat | tote | zone | ||
| rope | bloat | vote | phone | ||
| elope | Click on pic for Photo Editing. | remote | drone |
Note: There are very few Homonyms , words that sound the same but are spelled differently, in these lists. That can aid your learning the words. Learn the shorter list in each pair of word families. Then if you need to spell one of those words and it is not on the shorter list that you memorized, you can be pretty sure that it will be spelled the other way. This method is not 100% sure, but it will help.
Example: You hear rope. You know the Long O + P sound is made with either -ope or -oap. You remember that the only word on the -oap list is soap. Therefore, rope must be spelled with -ope.
| End with Long U sound | End with Long O sound | End with Short U + F | |||
| -ew Family | -ough Family | -ow Family | -ough Family | -uff Family | -ough Family |
| new | through | bow | though | buff | enough |
| blew | know | dough | duff | rough | |
| knew | show | although | guff | tough | |
| dew | row | muff | |||
| yew | stow | puff | |||
| crew | mow | ruff | |||
| threw | sow | stuff | |||
| drew | low | bluff | |||
| crow | scuff | ||||
Here are a few more smaller families:
| Long A + M sound |
aim, maim |
came, blame, dame, lame, game, fame, name, same, tame |
| Long U + T sound |
brute, flute |
boot, coot, hoot, loot, moot, root, shoot, scoot, toot |
| Long I + N sound |
sign, align |
brine, dine, fine, line, mine, nine, pine, sine, tine, wine, refine, confine |
| Long U + N sound |
dune, rune, tune |
boon, croon, goon, loon, moon, noon, soon, spoon |
| Long O + L sound | bowl, foal, goal, knoll, poll, roll, toll, troll, soul | dole, hole, pole, sole, vole |
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Reminder: Memorize the words in the shorter lists. Then when you hear a word that belongs to one of these families but it is not on the shorter list that you memorized, you will know that it will probably be spelled the other way.
The next page will illustrate again the danger of spelling a word in English by the way it sounds or is pronounced. Click HERE to proceed.
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