Following is a list of 21 commonly used initial consonant blends with example words.

Example of blending words. Blending is merging the sounds to make words. Blends are also called consonant clusters. Blending is the key skill for reading and segmenting is the crucial part of writing.

For instance the word blend can be bl cl fl pl gl br cr dr fr gr pr tr sk sp st sl sw spr cr str. Blends can also be formed through the omission of phonemes. Word blends can also be formed by overlapping or combining phonemes which are parts of two words that sound alike.

For example you hear d-o-g and combine it to make dog. For example I could make up the word. Examples of blinding in a sentence blinding is 8 letters long contains 2 vowels and 6 consonants.

The consonant and the vowel join together. Smog from smoke and fog and brunch from breakfast and lunch are examples of blends. As an example of an exocentric attributive blend Fruitopia may metaphorically take the buyer to a fruity utopia and not a utopian fruit.

Segmenting is separating words up into their sounds. If we take into account paradigmatic relations in the Saussures sense we discover another feature distinguishing blending from compounding that we. It refers to joining the beginning of one word and the end of another to make a new word with a new meaning.

At the top of the Layers palette youll see an. For instance in the example above the child learning to read who is blending well would preferably say. Examples of Blending 1Manimal man animal 2Hi-tech high technology 3Brunch breakfast lunch.