Assertion: vowel's sound | /r/HasProperty | long
Facets:
value: "half long"
type: DEGREE
value: depending on the word
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The main difference between long and short vowels is that long vowels have a long sound whereas short vowels have a short sound.
text: A long vowel has a long sound.
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: Vowel sounds can be short, long, or silent.
text: This may be doubled for an extra-long sound, or the top half (ˑ) may be used to indicate that a sound is "half long".
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: The vowel will say its long sound.
text: This may be doubled for an extra-long sound, or the top half (ˑ) may be used to indicate that a sound is "half long".
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.
text: These medial vowel sounds can be either long or short depending on the word that they are found in.
text: The vowel will say its long sound.
text: If a word with a certain vowel in it says the name of the vowel, then that vowel is making a “long” sound.