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Special Sounds – er / ir / ur

 

 

1. fern

 

birth

 

fur

 

dirt

2. serf

 

jerk

 

girth

 

fir

3. surf

 

mother

 

turf

 

murky

4. sir

 

lesser

 

taller

 

first

5. her

lurch

 

nerd

 

purge

6. stern

urn

perk

 

further

7. Bert

skirt

Vern

curd

8. were

turn

Perth

nurse

 

 

 

1. The fir grows taller in the dirt.

 

 

2. Don’t be a jerk, Vern.

 

 

3. Burn the dirty jersey first.

 

 

4. She got a fur skirt in Perth.

 

 

5. Her sisters were shorter than her.

 

 

6. Don’t surf on the serf’s turf, Kurt.