QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined, in pronunciation, to the following... The Elements of English Grammar, Etc - Page 26by Edward Ward Foster - 1840 - 31 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar woitl in the language. SECT. 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as LONG or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar word in the language. SECT. 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as LONG or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which... | |
| J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...stress of the voice must be on the letter v, and second syllable, same, which take the accent. Quantity. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel; which... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1815 - 382 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar word in the language. SECT. 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time which " is occupied in pronouncing if. It is considered as LONG or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel... | |
| L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pages
...terminational ; as, " Harmony, harmoniously ;" the distinctive ; as, " C6nvert, to convert." QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pro nouncing it, consideied as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on .the... | |
| Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...of the voice must be oo the leite. », and second syllable, sume, which take the accent. UUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time, which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 116 pages
...stress of the voice must be on the letter M, and second syllable, aume. which take the accent. QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable, is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which... | |
| Guillermo Casey - 1827 - 306 pages
...ly saying lvith P. Buffier, that xWhere grammar ends , rhetori(.k begins." CHAPTER II. OF QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long , when the accent is on the vowel ,... | |
| Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1830 - 124 pages
...the voice must be on the letter u, and second syllable sume, which takes the accent. QUANTITY. — The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel, which... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pages
...of the voice must be on the letter u, and second syllable, swine, which take the accent. QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which... | |
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