Study Sentences

Each of the following sentences focuses on a specific vowel, diphthong or consonant sound. It is intended has a study resource, but can also be used for practice.

Dialect Study Sentences by David Smukler (Copyright 2000)

Vowels and Diphthongs

  1. It seems easier to see the speeding teams, if we seek the cheap senior’s seats.
  2. Is it possible for Lily to be in the middle of the English city in ten minutes?
  3. It is April’s nature to save plain paper for Kate’s rainy day radio games.
  4. Henry bet ten cents that you’d be dressed and checking the fresh bread.
  5. After Annie and Sam cracked the sandbag in half, they crashed the wagon on the castle path.
  6. Herman’s girl purposefully worked to curl the earthworms for the birds.
  7. The international lunar brotherhood was aware that the balloons were circling above both the American and Canadian worlds.
  8. Uncle Buck is stunned to learn money comes from undiscovered funds.
  9. Macho Arthur and his calm Slavic partner wandered in their almond coloured car.
  10. Tom wants to stop by the pond and not follow the official office clock.
  11. George saw the tall lawyer walking before the worn chalkboard.
  12. Joan hopes that the folds in the old coat holds no more mould.
  13. Why would a wolf put a cookie cookbook on the roof?
  14. A new cubical full of blue shoes by the pool was approved by the school.
  15. On Friday nights, I find I am inspired to multiply ninety-nine by nine.
  16. The loyal boys all enjoy noisy joyful voices.
  17. Our house is surrounded in the south by the a mountain outside the town.
  18. Here’s their poor ignored car near the secured square in the north part of the city.

Consonants

  1. Bill Barnes bought a tub of pure powdered edible pumpkin paper cups heaped with rippled, scrambled and marbled maple butter.
  2. Making vast volumes of money amuses many of the merchant men of Montreal.
  3. Where were the white-wheeled wheelbarrows working last Wednesday when we went round the west without them.
  4. Find five friendly people for a film featuring light fingered wolves who forage through loaves of olive leaves.
  5. These are the northern thickets. Do you think that Martha can see through the thick thorns wreathing the threshold?
  6. Let Tom hold the light in order to test the toys. I don’t doubt that his dad’s battered model train missed the track and dropped off the little desk.
  7. Stephen groaned when nine sinning noblemen kneeled before the king.
  8. She hears cats and dogs and a buzzer in the distance. She stops, strains, sits and forgets, then dozes and dreams of zoos. She should do something soon.
  9. Ruth’s nurse walks her around to the west wall of the red wing. Her story is written there in the horrible grim and arid rocks.
  10. Let Larry light the lamps while Rachel pulls a book from the shelf and feels its leather.
  11. You should shed your passion for fashion shoes when you shop for fish.
  12. Jean-Jacques treasures a vision of ancient Asia.
  13. The Italian yellow onions were junior’s favorite ones yesterday.
  14. Each child should have a chance to choose their favorite adventure.
  15. The Judge told George there were ginger snaps jammed in his jaw.
  16. Captain Kirk can quickly clean the crew’s quarters and the decks.
  17. Big girls signal the good guys to give them bags of green grape gum.
  18. Last spring on Long Island, my angry uncle’s singing rankled the distinguished songwriter from the Bronx.
  19. Honest Hugh had a hand in rehabilitating the house behind the molehill.