'who accepts new patients'. This is a dependent clause because it is dependent on the other part of the sentence to have it make sense.
Oxymoron means <span>a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.</span>
Answer: The sh is a digraph, so /sh/I/ has just two phonemes. One more: throat. The th is a digraph, so it counts as one. Also, oa is a vowel digraph. Stretching throat, I find /th/r/O/t/, 4 phonemes. Exercise
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