If you use the words that you sent in this list, words like begin, behind, beyond, being, etc all have the BE as a syllable, the other words you mentioned do not have the first two letters as a syllable.
KEN _____ From: Steve Gladstone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [GWN] GRADE 2 AND VS 1. Can any of you grade 2 pundits explain why words like best, better, beep, and beer do not use the lower b contraction at the beginning of the word but words like begin, bemuse, and besot do use the lower b contraction? 2. When I use a comma OR PERIOD after the en contraction (dots 26), the VS does not say the word "enough" but just says en. Does anyone know why? Thank you, Steve ..
