ALTA CERTIFICATION TEST NEWEST 2026 EXAM
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE ACCURATE EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
(100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
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Vowel SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A class of open speech sounds produced by the
easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A, E, I, O, U
Consonant SELECTED ANSWER 👀 One of a class of speech sounds in which
sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue
or teeth during articulation.
Accent SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on
one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder,
longer, and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an
accented syllable.
Syllable SELECTED ANSWER 👀 a spoken or written unit that must have a vowel
sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables
are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Open Syllable SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A syllable ending with a long vowel sound.
(labor, freedom)
,Closed Syllable SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A syllable ending with one or more
consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Base Word SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A word to which affixes are added. A base
word can stand alone.
Derivative SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A word made from a base word by the addition
of one or more affixes
Affix SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A letter or a group of letters attached to the
beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning
or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Prefix SELECTED ANSWER 👀 An affix attached to the beginning of a word that
changes the meaning of that word.
Suffix SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A morpheme attached to the end of a word that
creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms
indicating tense, number, person and comparatives.
Macron SELECTED ANSWER 👀 The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send
picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Breve SELECTED ANSWER 👀 The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a
sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a
closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same
syllable.
, Tilde SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any
vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter.
The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation
of any unaccented vowel-r combination is respelled in the dictionary sound picture,
the symbol (er) is used
Cedilla SELECTED ANSWER 👀 The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its
"soft" or (s) pronunciation, as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use
the coding on c before the letters e, i, or y (the softeners), to remind themselves to
pronounced the (s) sound eg mice.
Digraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Two adjacent letters repressing a single
consonant sound
Consonant Digraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Two adjacent letters repressing a
single consonant sound
Vowel Digraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 To adjacent letters representing a single
vowel sound
Trigraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Three adjacent letters which represent one
speech sound (tch)
Quadrigraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Four adjacent letters representing one sound
(eigh)
Combination SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A pattern of letters (found in a single
syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE ACCURATE EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
(100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Vowel SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A class of open speech sounds produced by the
easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A, E, I, O, U
Consonant SELECTED ANSWER 👀 One of a class of speech sounds in which
sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue
or teeth during articulation.
Accent SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on
one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder,
longer, and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an
accented syllable.
Syllable SELECTED ANSWER 👀 a spoken or written unit that must have a vowel
sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables
are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Open Syllable SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A syllable ending with a long vowel sound.
(labor, freedom)
,Closed Syllable SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A syllable ending with one or more
consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Base Word SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A word to which affixes are added. A base
word can stand alone.
Derivative SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A word made from a base word by the addition
of one or more affixes
Affix SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A letter or a group of letters attached to the
beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning
or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Prefix SELECTED ANSWER 👀 An affix attached to the beginning of a word that
changes the meaning of that word.
Suffix SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A morpheme attached to the end of a word that
creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms
indicating tense, number, person and comparatives.
Macron SELECTED ANSWER 👀 The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send
picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Breve SELECTED ANSWER 👀 The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a
sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a
closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same
syllable.
, Tilde SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any
vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter.
The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation
of any unaccented vowel-r combination is respelled in the dictionary sound picture,
the symbol (er) is used
Cedilla SELECTED ANSWER 👀 The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its
"soft" or (s) pronunciation, as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use
the coding on c before the letters e, i, or y (the softeners), to remind themselves to
pronounced the (s) sound eg mice.
Digraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Two adjacent letters repressing a single
consonant sound
Consonant Digraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Two adjacent letters repressing a
single consonant sound
Vowel Digraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 To adjacent letters representing a single
vowel sound
Trigraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Three adjacent letters which represent one
speech sound (tch)
Quadrigraph SELECTED ANSWER 👀 Four adjacent letters representing one sound
(eigh)
Combination SELECTED ANSWER 👀 A pattern of letters (found in a single
syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the
