Consonants /h/ - JSS2 English language Lesson Note

Consonant /h/ 

The consonant /h/ is a significant part of English language phonetics. Here are some key points to remember:

The /h/ sound is found at the beginning of words such as ‘hit’, ‘hood’, ‘hawk’, ‘home’, ‘herd’, ‘hide’, ‘hall’, ‘whole’, ‘who’, ‘whore’, ‘whom’, ‘head’, ‘behave’, ‘adhere’, ‘abhor’, ‘inhabit’, ‘perhaps’, ‘behold’, ‘behind’, ‘ahead’, ‘inhale’, ‘inhibit’, ‘rehearse’, 'inherit’.

The /h/ sound does not occur at the end of a word.

It is not pronounced in words like ‘hour’, ‘honour’, ‘honest’, ‘heir’, ‘vehicle’, ‘exhibit’, and 'exhaust’.