Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the underlined sound in blood:
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. flood
- Step 1: Identify the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) vowel phoneme in the word 'blood'. The spelling 'oo' in 'blood' represents the short open-mid back unrounded vowel /ʌ/ (rhyming with 'mud' /mʌd/).
- Step 2: Determine the vowel phonemes in the given options: 'flood' is pronounced /flʌd/, containing the exact same vowel sound /ʌ/. In contrast, 'food' /fuːd/, 'mood' /muːd/, and 'rude' /ruːd/ all contain the long close back rounded vowel /uː/.
Answer
flood.
Why not the others: food contains the long vowel /uː/; mood contains the long vowel /uː/; rude contains the long vowel /uː/.
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