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There are no set rules for how sounds are represented in written English beyond the correlation of one sound per symbol in the alphabet.

a. True
b. False

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Final answer:

There are set rules for how sounds are represented in written English.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement is false.

While it is true that the English alphabet uses a combination of twenty-six letters to represent sounds, there are indeed set rules for how sounds are represented in written English.

These rules include spelling patterns and phonetic conventions that dictate how words are spelled and pronounced.

For example, the letter 'c' is soft and pronounced as /s/ when followed by the letters 'e', 'i', or 'y', but is hard and pronounced as /k/ in other cases.

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