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Detailed description of the vowel /e/

During the articulation of this vowel, the front of the tongue is raised in the direction of the hard palate to a position between the half-close and half-open positions. The lips are neutral. Thus it is a front unrounded vowel between the half-close and half-open positions.  It is a short vowel. It is represented in spelling by e, ea, a, u, ie, ai, ay, as in red, head, any, bury, friend, leisure, said, says. this vowel sound occurs initially and medially as in end, bell etc. It does not occur finally. Some more examples:

a – any, many, ferry, merry, Jerry

ai – said, again

ay – says

e – end, send, let, get, betbed, mess, egg, kettle

ea – dead, head, read, spread, health, leant, jealous, pleasant

ei – leisure

eo – leopard, Geoffrey

ie – friend,

u – bury

ue – guess, guest

Possessive Determiners

Possessive Determiner

A determiner used in front of a noun to express possession or belonging, e.g. my book, his coat, our house, your car, its colour, their culture.

The possessive determiners in English are my, your, his, her, its, our and their.

Possessive Determiners are sometimes called Possessive Adjectives or Possessive Pronouns.

They are called Possessive Adjectives as they are used with nouns and do the work of adjectives, e.g.

This is my pen.

 Those are your pens.

That is his pen.

In the following sentences the words in italics are Possessive Pronouns:-

This notebook is mine.

Those notebooks are yours.

That notebook is hers.

That plan of yours is wonderful.

Determiners

Determiners

Determiner is a word used in front of a noun or a pronoun to tell us something about it. Unlike an adjective, it does not, ‘describe’ a noun or pronoun.

Determiners are divided into the following categories:

  • Articles (a, an, the) as in a dog, an aero plane, the chocolates.
  • Demonstrative Determiners (this, that, these, those) as in this pen, that house, these girls, those boys.
  • Possessive Determiners (my, your, his/her/its, our, their) as in my friends, your house, her dress, its colour, our duty, their plans.
  • Numbers (one, two, three, four etc., first, second, third, fourth etc.) as in two roads, four boys, second child)
  • General Determiners (all, another, any, both, each, either, enough, every, few, fewer, less, little, many, most, much, neither, no, other, several, some) as in all students,  enough food, both parents, few people, little water, no money).