Assertion: vowel | /r/HasAspect | long sound
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Source sentences:
text: If an "e" is the last letter of a word, it is usually silent, but it also signifies that the vowels that came before have a long sound (examples: note, pride, derive, state).
text: Generally, when an e follows a vowel-consonant pair (the word "male", for example), the e is silent and the vowel has a "long" sound rather than "short"
text: Whether a vowel has a long sound, a short sound, or remains silent, depends on its position in a word and the letters around it.