Pronunciation Practice: Minimal Pairs – III

                                                        Pronunciation Practice: Minimal Pairs – III

                                           

                Dear readers, in the previous post we learnt about the first part of Minimal Pairs in English. In this post let us discuss the second part of Minimal Pairs, which means “… a set of words which differ from each other in just one sound” (Balasubramanian, 2005). For example, boy – toy, bin – pin, kite - bite. These two words differ in one different sound. Practising these minimal pairs certainly helps in refining pronunciation. Practise the following exercise to improve pronunciation in English.  

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·        Joke                      -              Folk

·        Know                    -              Foe

·        Know                    -              Show

·        Last                       -              List

·        Last                       -              Fast

·        Live                      -              Love

·        Like                      -              Life

·        Lid                        -              Lit

·        Loan                     -              Bone

·        May                      -              Pay

·        Mine                     -              Fine

·        Meet                     -              Neat

·        Might                    -              Night

·        Part                       -              Port

·        Plate                     -              Slate

·        Peer                      -              Deer

·        Pale                       -              Male

·        Rat                        -              Root

·        Pet                         -              Met

·        Race                     -              Face

·        Rise                      -              Mice

·        Rice                      -              Nice

·        Rough                   -            Tough

·        Saint                     -             Paint

·        Sail                       -              Mail

·        Set                         -              Met

·        Sat                         -              Mat

·        Sit                         -              Chit

·        Tear (noun)          -            Fear

·        Tear (verb)          -              Bear

·        Train                     -              Drain

·        Try                        -              Fry

·        Under                   -              Thunder

·        Union                   -              Onion

·        Wrist                    -              Rest

·        Worry                   -              Sorry

 

Keep practising several times until you acquire the pronunciation fluently. In the next post, let us learn about Homophones.

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Regards,  

Author:

K. Nandhakumar

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science (Autonomous)

Coimbatore- 641 020