NARRATOR: 'Y' is a bit unusual, because sometimes it acts as a consonant in a word, and sometimes it acts as a vowel. The letter 'y' changes colour from red, like the consonants, to blue, like the ...

They are consonant+vowel combinations 'wuh' and 'yu.' A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not a bad rule of thumb. Most of the time a spoken vowel will be represented by one of those written forms.

Vowel teams are two vowels or a vowel and a consonant that work together to make a sound. So let's see how these two vowel teams work in a word. I'm gonna start with the word paid.