--- title: Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 4 «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi… # Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling The 16 questions of lesson 4 «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 90 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t1/) — «proper job, my lover! now read: the \_\_\_ was on the farm, cow or snow?». Which fits and why? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t2/) — «the e on the end of hope does nothing, it's just decoration innit». Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t3/) — «howay man, oa, ow, o-e, oe, all for one sound, it's canny daft, nobody can learn that». What is the wise move? — right ✓ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t4/) — «nite» is on a shop sign. Sadie's mum says «see, it's spelled nite». What is true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t5/) — What would happen if Dev only ever tried the /ee/ sound for «ea»? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t6/) — «y's a consonant, it's in the alphabet with the consonants, no way it's a vowel». What is the fair reply? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t7/) — In a cartoon a bear says «I'm a beer!» because «ear» always says /ear/. What should the bear learn? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t8/) — A friend from Lancashire says «book» so it nearly rhymes with «moon». Is she saying it wrong? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t9/) — «can or not, teacher, I write bird as burd, same sound one». What is the answer? — right ✓ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t10/) — ★★★ Which word becomes a NEW real word when you add a silent e to the end? — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t11/) — ★★★ How many words in this list have the /oa/ sound: boat, cow, snow, home, shout? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/t12/) — ★★★ In «the wind blew the bread off the table», one word has the vowel sound of «true» and one the vowel sound of «head». Which pair is it? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of a final silent e in a split digraph? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/e2/) — Ascertain the course of action appropriate to a reader who encounters a letter team possessing two possible sounds. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/e3/) — Identify the principal distinction between «ai» and «ay» as representations of the same sound. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the letter y. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [3. Tricky words and common exception words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/) - next →: [5. Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/)