Answer:
Top:
One Syllable --> wind, bench, shrimp, fish, star, breeze
Two Syllable--> seashore, unlock, table, ladder, silent, homesick
Three Syllable --> cucumber, wonderful, popular, terrible, adventure, elephant
Bottom:
1. mitten
2. vacation
3. sled
4. before
5. factory
6. pinch
7. paper
8. hammer
9. loose
Explanation:
One syllable words are words that are "unbroken." It's a single sound. Like the word "miss" has only one syllable. Miss. It's a single sound.
Two syllable words have two sounds and one break. Take the word "mission." It has two sounds put together. Miss and ion. Miss-ion.
Three syllable words follow the same pattern, it has three sounds, and two breaks. Like the word "admission." This has three sounds. Ad and miss and ion.
Figuring out the number of syllables in a word is mostly intuitive. When you were younger your teacher may have also taught you the thing where you clap while breaking up the sounds in a word out loud and that helps you find the number of syllables.
So if you go through this process with each word in the box you can figure it out. Like Won and der and ful are the three sounds put together to get "wonderful." So we know that it has three syllables.
For the exercise on the bottom, basically you just need to figure out the number of syllables or individual sounds in the bold word and then find another word in that row with the same number of sounds.
So let's follow the same process. For the first question, "Grassy." Grass and y. Two sounds so two syllables. The three options are sniff, mitten, and however.
However has how and e and ver. Three syllables.
Mitten has mit and ten. Two syllables.
Pinch is just pinch. One syllable.
If "grassy" has two syllables and out of the three options "mitten" is the only one with two syllables, this means that's the word with the same number of syllables. That's our answer.
Then follow the same process with the rest of the words.
I hope this helps you understand the concept better!
