r is a voiced consonant

Phonetic Symbol, r

Drill: rah, ra, ree, roo, roh, raw

This sound occurs initially, as in run, between vowels, as in forest, and after consonants, as in try.

raja	rat	rare
ray	red	ripe
reed	rim	rye
roof	rook	roil
road	run	round
raw	rod	ruin

1. The reapers are reaping the ripe rye
2. Will the rippling rill reach the rushing river?
3. The rough ranger reached for the red ruby
4. Resolve to read, recite, and reproduce in a rich, ringing voice

very	merrily	train
error	currant	dream
every	hurry	freeze
horror	cereal	throw
torrid	serene	prince
errand	sorry	shrank

1. Rachel has returned from her trip to Russia
2. Ralph and Rover ran a race in the orchard
3. Roy rolled the rope and returned to the ranch
4. Robert rowed merrily with the current
5. Laura put raisins into the rice-pudding.
6. Rare, red raspberries grow in the ravine
7. Robin red-breast hurried to the cherry-tree.
8. Richard corrected the error in his arithmetic problem
9. On Friday Vera returned the borrowed umbrella
10. Rose read a story to Caroline and Russel
11. Rows of radishes grow by Grandpa's asparagus
12. The trapper roamed at random through the forest
13. Raymond 's favorite fruit is ripe red cherries
14. Oranges and grape-fruit grow in Florida
15. The St. Lawrence River drains the Great Lakes.
16. The wrecked raft was rushed to the bridge by the roaring torrent
17. Ex-President Roosevelt travelled in Africa and South America
18. Harry likes carrots, but Rebecca and Frances pre­ fer Brussels sprouts.

r as in oar is a voiced consonant

Raise the sides of the tongue until they touch the upper teeth and gums. Draw the
tip back, raise the front slightly and expel the breath with vibration of the vocal cords.

Phonetic Symbol. r

Note: In some parts of the East and South and in southern England this sound is omitted by many speakers.

Thus are is pronounced ah and lord, laud.

Drill: ahr, ar, eer, oor, ohr, awr

This sound occurs finally, as in hear, and before consonants, as in hard.

far	air	fair
care	here	her
ear	fear	pure
poor	eve r	fire
oar	where	our
bar	year	there

1. There was a wicker rocker in the parlor
2. Spencer told the hunter not to scare the deer
3. Did Eleanor enter the boat and go to the farther shore?

arm	quart	burn
hurt	hard	heard
word	lark	forty
form	word	thirty
barn	fern	birch
firm	George	girth

1. Many flowers were beaten to the earth by the storm.
2. Martha and Bertha turned toward the river
3. Brother and sister were working hard in the garden
4. Herbert heard the farmer churning the butter this morning.
5. Flowers and ferns grow in a fertile valley near
6. A large fire log was burning in the fireplace.
7. In the early morning George heard the song of the lark
8. Our girls learned to knit during the World War.
9. Robert Bruce learned the lesson of perseverance from a spider
10. By Saturday the tired laborer had earned thirty­ four dollars.
11. After dinner Pearl and her mother worked on their sweaters for more than an hour
12. '' Oh hark, oh hear, how thin and clear, and thinner, clearer, farther going.'
13. '' A year or more with rush and roar the surf had roiled it over ''
14. ''The breeze comes whispering in our ear, that dandelions are blossoming near ''