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Let’s play the clap word game.
Where the word produces one sound, clap once, as in ‘creep’. Clap twice if the word can be broken up into two syllables as in creeper, and thrice as in to-mo-rrow.
| creeper | struggled | tomorrow | geese |
| throw | foolish | possible | noticed |
| carefully | flapped | returned | evening |
| trapped | surprise |
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