ive been taking syllables for years now, probably since first or second grade, but i don’t understand what a syllable is. i know it’s like a word split into parts or something like that (cant word it properly), but why? am i going to use this in the future, how do i split the word into sound parts? how do i count syllables? i cant figure out, and i haven’t understood it for a long time.
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A syllable is a word or a piece of a word that has one vowel sound when you speak it out loud.
An example of this would be the word “strengths.” It has one syllable because it has only one vowel sound in it when you say the word out loud. “Crying” has two syllables because you say two different vowel sounds when you say that word.
Why are syllables important? In poetry and in song writing, matching up different lines of the song or poem to have the same (or almost the same) number if syllables can help the flow and make it sound better. It would be weird to hear a song where each line has a totally different number of syllables. One line would feel too long, another too short.
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