In the following box, the typical English silent vowel letter words have been listed for practice for school students.
Linguists observe that silent letters in English are diacritic letters by and large. In other words, in stead of being pronounced, they often alter the pronunciation of another syllable. If you compare the words 'din' and 'dine', it would be clear that 'e' is not pronounced in the latter, but it alters the pronunciation of another syllable 'i' by lengthening it.
Try rightly pronounced 'suppose' as 'spose' and 'potato' as 'ptato' to find u and a vowel letters as silent. If one masters the silent vowel letters first, the pronunciation of words with silent consonant letters becomes easier and faster, my experience informs.
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