Modern Grammar - Assignment 4 James Madison University

Instructions: Do each of the questions below. Remember that you are welcome to use your textbook to help you! [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Choose one diphthong from the three that must be distinguished as diphthongs (see page 51), then give two words that contain that vowel sound. /_____/
   ______________ and ______________

2. Transcribe each whole word below:
   1. push
   2. jobs
   3. candy
   4. know
   5. walnut
   6. laced
   7. wreathe (note that this is the verb, not the noun)
   8. twitch
   9. human
   10. treasure
   11. connect
   12. frosty
   13. chew
   14. squeaked
   15. fascinate
   16. coils (notice the diphtong)
   17. outside (diphthongs galore!)
   18. phonetics
   19. is
   20. quite
   21. easy

3. Do exercise 4 in Chapter 2 of your textbook (page 49).