Two consonants that blend together and lose their own individual sounds and create a new unique sound.
for example: ch, sh, th
chair, shape, though
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A digraph. A digraph is when two consonants make one sound. "Ch," "sh," and "th" are other examples.
The silent letter in the word "ghastly" is the letter "h." In this word, the "gh" combination is pronounced as the "g" sound, so the "h" is silent. The "gh" digraph is a common spelling pattern in English where the "h" is silent and the preceding consonant is pronounced differently.
No. It is a consonant diagraph.
A beginning consonant means the beginning of a word. A beginning consonant means the beginning of a word.
A consonant blend is self-explanitory, it is a series of consanants that are pronounced all together, so 'shr' is a consonant blend, 'sion' is not a consonant blend.