Question: what is the difference between an open syllable and a closed syllable?
Answer: For example, the word "going" is made up of two syllables, "go" and "ing." An open syllable contains only one vowel -- A, E, I, O, U or Y -- which it ends with. A closed syllable also only contains one vowel, but ends in a consonant, which is any letter that is not a vowel.