The most common sound in English
Produced by characters that are not stressed in a word
Represented as: /ə/
All the vowels can create the Schwa Sound
Common Schwa Sound
- a + consonant
- vowels + r (
-er/-ar/-or/-our/-ure) - words ending in
-ian/-ion(the-ia/-io) - words ending in
-ous(the-ou)