How to know when a letter is silent in English
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Knight or night? Write or right?
Sometimes the problem is not the sound you can hear. It’s the letter you can’t.
Silent letters can make English pronunciation feel unfair, but they’re not completely random. Once you start spotting the patterns, it gets much easier to know when a letter is there to be seen, not said.
In this Mini English Lesson, Neeraj shows you how to recognise some of the most common silent-letter patterns in English, so you can avoid the kind of pronunciation mistake that turns one word into another.
