Which term describes two or three consonants joined together in the same syllable but each letter makes a sound?

Which term describes two or three consonants joined together in the same syllable but each letter makes a sound?

• A. R-Controlled Vowels
• B. Consonant Blends
• C. Consonant Trigraph
• D. Denotation

Answer: (B)

Consonant blends describe when two or three consonants appear together in the same syllable and each letter keeps its own sound. You hear all the sounds in the cluster before the vowel, as in bright (b and r both voice their sounds) or street (s, t, and r each contribute). This is different from digraphs, where two letters combine to make one sound (like sh or ch). It also isn’t about three consonants working as one sound, which would be a consonant trigraph. And denotation isn’t related to sound at all—it’s about meaning.

Consonant blends describe when two or three consonants appear together in the same syllable and each letter keeps its own sound. You hear all the sounds in the cluster before the vowel, as in bright (b and r both voice their sounds) or street (s, t, and r each contribute). This is different from digraphs, where two letters combine to make one sound (like sh or ch). It also isn’t about three consonants working as one sound, which would be a consonant trigraph. And denotation isn’t related to sound at all—it’s about meaning.