Rules for silent 'e' - English In A Minute

Learn about the silent 'e' with James in this English In A Minute.
Which of these words ending in a silent ‘e’ have a long vowel sound?

a) love
b) some
c) hate

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[pussycatlover]

Much obliged for your time and lesson. you are a star. Greetings from Casablanca.

[quocnhat]

Such an amazing video for learning English. Besides, the sound of video is quite low. Anw, thank you so much.

[jota_Reyes]

Great video, but the audio is a little bit "silent".

[ezaldeenalkhlif]

for example 1-sit - site
rat --rate
2- middle

[Foudroyant]

Silent E modifies the previous vowel < IF > there's only ONE consonnant between the two vowel sounds, e.g., SAFE vs. GIRAFFE. In order to keep their vowel sound intact, many verbs resort to double consonnants when conjugated, e.g., PLAN > PLANNING.

Saying that words ending in 'le' are pronounced / əl / is misleading. Any word-ending L sound is a SYLLABIC L which is pronounced differently than a simple / əl /, e.g., FEEL, LITTLE - Mind that children often write 'LITTO' when trying to reproduce what they hear.

[martymitch]

Thank you very much for your work, as usual, but there must be something wrong with the audio.

[nigarrzayeva]

Thank you very much for this useful video

[dipperjr]

So how you pronounce "clanne"? Would you say, "clan" or "clan-ne"?

[dixxon]

ive just discover word "hemmed", to my suprise pronunciation of this word is a mystery first e's is pronaunced simillar to letter "A" second is silent, could you please explain why? thank you in advance

[kacimin]

its good video, btw I think the sound is quite low. am i wrong?

[joshua]

Great But BBC Learning English should work on it's audio part.

[justnothing]

The rules can be simple and helpful but listening to the rules is not easy 😄. So basically we need to get the rules through our ears first before being able to feel their simplicity and helpfulness.

[ShaheryarRauf]

He needs to buy hands-free or anything that has mic in it. Listening to this gentleman makes me feel like I’m having an audio hearing test.

[thanhdo]

Thanks so much for making the great video. Would you mind speaking a little louder, please?

[swadeshtaneja]

God how much I hate such irregularities of English. This takes away so much time of students. There must be a body of right thinking English language experts who must take corrective measures for spelling and pronunciation of English language and avoid such cumbersome rules.