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... AUTHOR IS SO MUCH INDEBTED , THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO APPLY SOME OF THOSE PRINCIPLES TO THE PRACTICAL PURPOSE OF TEACHING ENGLISH SPELLING , IS BY PERMISSION - RESPECTFULLY Dedicated . SIR , Sth September , 1864 . I have read.
... AUTHOR IS SO MUCH INDEBTED , THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO APPLY SOME OF THOSE PRINCIPLES TO THE PRACTICAL PURPOSE OF TEACHING ENGLISH SPELLING , IS BY PERMISSION - RESPECTFULLY Dedicated . SIR , Sth September , 1864 . I have read.
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... apply to the teaching of Spelling the improved methods which experi- ence has suggested and approved of in the teaching of other subjects . The principles upon which all effective teaching is based , are- EASY GRADATION , SYSTEMATIC ...
... apply to the teaching of Spelling the improved methods which experi- ence has suggested and approved of in the teaching of other subjects . The principles upon which all effective teaching is based , are- EASY GRADATION , SYSTEMATIC ...
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... application , and will be safer guides , than rules based upon the derivations of words from other languages . C GENERAL PRINCIPLES . The Rules for Spelling which follow , -THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 33 Introduction Page.
... application , and will be safer guides , than rules based upon the derivations of words from other languages . C GENERAL PRINCIPLES . The Rules for Spelling which follow , -THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 33 Introduction Page.
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... apply . satisfy rarefy verify try supply terrify specify putrify ply defy petrify crucify qualify вру fancy falsify deify fortify try study gratify liquefy mortify cry modify rectify edify certify pry justify ratify pacify beautify dry ...
... apply . satisfy rarefy verify try supply terrify specify putrify ply defy petrify crucify qualify вру fancy falsify deify fortify try study gratify liquefy mortify cry modify rectify edify certify pry justify ratify pacify beautify dry ...
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... apply deny vary justify rely envy remedy pity levy -er to deny envy copy magnify sanctify curry carry cry purify justify -ful to bounty plenty pity duty beauty -ance to apply dally ally vary luxury -ant to supply comply ply luxury defy ...
... apply deny vary justify rely envy remedy pity levy -er to deny envy copy magnify sanctify curry carry cry purify justify -ful to bounty plenty pity duty beauty -ance to apply dally ally vary luxury -ant to supply comply ply luxury defy ...
Common terms and phrases
accented Add able affix beginning analogy ance ANOMALOUS WORDS Apostasy aversion boat bond-age cab-bage CHANGE OF LETTERS.-RULE child chough chyle chyme con-val-es-cent DIPHTHONGS DOUBLING OF LETTERS.-RULE dough drachm ence English spelling English words end ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING EXAMPLES EXERCISES final following verbs following words form the following grease guage ible IRREGULAR COMBINATIONS knead language large number last consonant LETTERS.-RULE I.-FINAL LONG VOWEL SOUNDS lyre MAIZE manner form MAX MÜLLER mode monosyllables Noah's ark OMISSION OF LETTERS.-RULE past tense phlegm pity plough practical preceded principle pronunciation race fleece redundant letters rem-in-is-cent retained ribon Rules for Spelling sentences SHORT VOWEL SOUNDS SILENT LETTERS steady ready surplice syllable beginning teacher teaching spelling tendency to throw terminations thyme tion tree try glory UNSETTLED ORTHOGRAPHY Verbs ending vil-lage vowel is added WEEN WORDBUILDING words below add WORDS OF UNSETTLED Write the names zhun
Popular passages
Page 93 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 83 - While hewing yews Hugh lost his ewe And put it in the Hue and Cry, To name its face's dusky hues Was all the effort he could use. You brought the ewe back by and by And only begged the hewer's ewer Your hands to wash in water pure Lest nice-nosed ladies not a few Should cry, on coming near you, 'Ugh'.
Page 45 - Final y preceded by a consonant is changed into i before all affixes, except those beginning with i.
Page 88 - Little strokes fell great oaks. hun'ger blan ket trin ket tinker con gress 64 65 RULES FOR SPELLING. L Final e is dropped when a syllable beginning with a vowel is added. 128. -ing. Waste not, want not. bake . . . bak'ing love . . . lov'ing place plac ing trace trac ing make mak ing like lik ing come com ing smile smil ing have hav ing 129.
Page 83 - Hugh lost hia ewe, And put it in the " Hue and Cry ;" To mark it's face's dusky hues Was all the effort he could use.
Page 55 - Words of one syllabic, and words accented on the last syllable, double the last consonant. When a syllable beginning with a vowel is added...