Exercise for Practice on sound combination.
Practice the following exercises on sound combinations and prepare to do them individually when called upon.
a . Peter Prangle, the prickly, prangly pear picker, pick three pecks of pickly, prangly pears from the pricky, prangly pear trees on the pleasant prairies.
b. Big black bugs brought buckests of black bear’s blood.
c. Pillercatter, tappedkiller, kitterpaller, patterkiller, caterpillar.
d. A big black bug bit a big black bear.
e. Better buy the bigger rubber baby buggy
f. A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
“Is it harder to toot or To tutor two tooters to toot?”
g. Betty Botta bought a bit of butter.
“But, ” said she, “This butter is bitter.
If I put it in my batter
it will make my batter bitter;
But a bit of better butter
Will make my bitter batter better.
” So she bought a bit of butter.
Better than the bitter butter
And it made her bitter batter better.
So ’twas better Betty Botta
Bought a bit of better butter.
h. Thomas a Tattamus took two T’s,
To tie two pups to two tall trees,
To frighten the terrible Thomas a Tattamus!
Now do tell me how many T’s that is.
i. He was a three-toed tree toad, but a two-toed toad was she.
The three-toed tree toad tried to climb the two-toed tree toad’s tree.
j. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
k. Sister Susie went to sea to see the sea you see.
So the sea she saw you see was a saucy sea.
The sea she saw was a saucy sea.
A sort of saucy sea saw she.
I. Seven shell-shocked soldiers sawing six slick, slender, slippery, silver saplings.
m. A skunk sat on a stump. The stump said the skunk stunk, and the skunk said the stump stunk.
n. A biscuit, a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixed.
o Theophilas Thistle the successful thistle sifter in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles sifted three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. See that thou, oh thou unsuccessful thistle sifter, sift not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
