Name: Silent E, Silent K, Silent P Rules | Learn English Silent Letters in Words | 3 Lessons
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And I've got a nice basic English video for you here today.

Now, I'm going to talk to you about silent ‘e’.

Now, a silent letter is a letter  in a word that we don't say.

We write the letter. But when we read the word,  

we don't say that letter. Now silent ‘e’, kind of a tricky one here. 

And I've got some examples to help you. Now, if you can remember your vowels:  

The short sound and the long sound. Well, silent ‘e’ is the letter ‘e’  

that comes at the end of a word. But we don't say the ‘e’. 

The ‘e’ is just there to change the vowel sound. 

Let's take a look here and I'll show you. All right, now, I have this first word here. 

plan Okay, that's like ‘I have a plan for tomorrow’. 

Okay, so we know that a plan you make a plan, then if I do this, 

now it's not ‘planee’, no. Now it becomes, before it was short ‘a’, plan,  

now, long ‘a’, ‘plane’. Okay like an airplane, all right. 

Look at the plane in the sky. Not plane. 

Now, it's long ‘a’, ‘plane’. Okay. 

Next thing going down here. We know this this is a man's name, ‘Tim’. 

Maybe you have a friend named Tim. Okay, but, and again, that is sound,  

that's short ‘i’. But if we go ahead,  

and if we put silent ‘e’ there, that means now ‘time’. 

But now you have the long ‘i' sound, ‘time’. Alright. 

If you remember, ‘plan’  had the ‘a’ with short ‘a'. 

So does ‘cap’ with the /æ/ sound. Alright. 

So if we have ‘cap’ right now, let's go ahead and make ‘cape’. 

Alright. Now, we go to long ‘a’ with the ‘cape’ sound. 

Alright. Now after ‘hop’, we put short ‘e’. 

Don't say ‘hoppee’. We say ‘hope’. 

It's like ‘I hope it does not rain tomorrow  because I'm going to the baseball game.’ 

Before it was ‘hop’ now ‘hope’  with the long vowel ‘o’ sound. 

we haven't done one with ‘u’ yet. Now long ‘u’, it's a little strange. 

so here's short ‘u’, ‘tub’. The short vowel ‘u’. 

Alright. From ‘tub’, we put silent ‘e’. 

Again, not ‘tubee’, we say ‘tube’. Alright. 

Goes from ‘tub’ to ‘tube’. But still I'm not saying silent ‘e’. 

Alright. After that we come down to ‘bit’. 

‘bit’ means a small piece. You know, ‘Can I have a bit of your bread?’ 

Well that's ‘bit’. Again, same as Tim. 

We have the /ɪ/, short vowel ‘I’. So again, silent ‘e’ comes in. 

Now, you're probably getting a good idea  of it, so I just got two more for you. 

Again, here. You know, remember, /ʌ/. The short vowel ‘u’. 

Well, we go ‘cut’ - now ‘cute’. Okay, we have ‘cute’. 

“Ah, look at the cute puppy.” Alright. 

And now, last one here. I've got ‘rip’. 

When you don't have scissors. All right. 

Well there's ‘rip’ and then there's ‘ripe’. Long vowel /eɪ/ with the silent ‘e’. 

So listen to me as I say these. We've got plane, time,  

cape, hope, tube, bite, cute, and ripe. Never did I say the ‘e’ because it's silent. 

It's just there to make a long vowel. Okay. I hope that was helpful. 

And I hope I see you again soon. Thank you very much.

Hi, this is Bill. And right now I have a very  

simple pronunciation video to go through with you. Now, sometimes in English, we have silent letters. 

Now, these are letters that appear in a word  but we don't say them when we read that word. 

so it can be a little difficult when  you're trying to listen or read. 

And I'm just going to  explain this one idea to you. 

And that is ‘k’ before ‘n’  at the beginning of a word. 

Now, you can see all the examples behind me. 

But of course, in this case, if you  see KN at the beginning of a word, 

you do not say the ‘K’ sound. Okay. 

Just forget the K's there. Well don't forget ,but ignore it. 

So our first one here. This word is not ‘K-now’. 

What you want to do is, you  just want to think ‘no’. 

And you should know this is like,  “I know how to speak English.” 

Alright. These are the things you ‘know’ how to d. 

And then down to ‘knowledge’. Alright. 

Again, no ‘K’ sound. We have ‘knowledge’. 

Now, ‘knowledge’ is all the things you know. If you have a lot of knowledge, you're a very  

Stupid people, they have no knowledge. Okay. 

Or maybe you just don't  know about a certain topic. 

It's like I have no knowledge  about the Chinese language. 

That's a true thing. I don't know anything. 

Now, this is not ‘night time’, like  “Oh day is finished. It's night time.” 

Now, if there's a ‘K’ here, this  is like the old style in England. 

Like King Arthur and his knights. And they wear the armor and fight with swords.  

That sort of thing. That's what that night means. 

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