In disyllables the former vowel or diphthong, if followed immediately by another vowel or diphthong, had the quality, and if emphatic also the quality, of a long vowel.
The preposition and adverb post was pronounced with a long vowel both by itself and in composition with verbs, but its adjectives did not follow suit.
When only the other day 'cinematograph' made its not wholly desirable appearance, it made no claim to a long vowel in either of its two first syllables.
That a long vowel is equal to two shorts is a rule of metrical theory (see 2515).
The sound of a long vowel is considered to be twice the length of that of a short.
Churchill, who makes no such distinction, thinks accent essential alike to emphasis and to the quantity of a long vowel, and yet, as regards monosyllables, dependent on them both!
We cannot give emphasis to any word, or it's [its] proper duration to a long vowel, without accenting it.
It takes about as long to pronounce a short vowel plus a consonant as it does to pronounce a long vowel or a diphthong, and so these quantities are considered equally long.
Give illustrations of the single consonant after a long vowel.
X suffers a long vowel before it, being composed of the c (the only mute that allows a long vowel before it) and the S.
It is a significant fact in this connection that M is the only one of the liquids (semivowels) that does not allow a long vowel before it.
When the last syllable has a long vowel or diphthong it stands on the syllable before the last.
A long vowel or diphthong is used as an equivalent for two (usually short) vowels in immediate succession, or as a compensation for the omission of a consonant, sometimes for both.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long vowel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
