Question

A letter combination where one or more letters are silent (i.e., does not represent the phoneme), but another letter does represent the phoneme. Most of these are of Greek or Anglo-Saxon derivation...

a. Digraph
b. Trigraph
c. Blend
d. Diacritic

Answer 1

A digraph is a letter combination where one or more letters are silent but another letter represents the phoneme.

Step-by-step explanation:

A letter combination where one or more letters are silent but another letter represents the phoneme is called a digraph.

A digraph is a combination of two letters used to spell a single sound. For example, the letter combination 'ea' in 'beach' represents the long 'e' sound. Digraphs can be found in words of Greek or Anglo-Saxon derivation, such as 'light' or 'phone'.