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... MODE OF USING THE BOOK . The following mode of using the book is suggested as the most advantageous : - The teacher will read a portion slowly and distinctly , the class repeating after him : this will , at the same time , fami- liarise ...
... MODE OF USING THE BOOK . The following mode of using the book is suggested as the most advantageous : - The teacher will read a portion slowly and distinctly , the class repeating after him : this will , at the same time , fami- liarise ...
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... mode of distinguishing short from long vowels is suffi- cient for monosyllables , and the final syllables of longer words ; but when a syllable beginning with a vowel is added , some other means of indicating that the vowel is short is ...
... mode of distinguishing short from long vowels is suffi- cient for monosyllables , and the final syllables of longer words ; but when a syllable beginning with a vowel is added , some other means of indicating that the vowel is short is ...
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... mode insure subside defence congrue tickle endure interfere -al -y -en -ical spine stone plague wide cone revise prose pebble broke type virtue sauce feeble spoke lyre propose sedge humble like state arrive sponge noble take sphere ...
... mode insure subside defence congrue tickle endure interfere -al -y -en -ical spine stone plague wide cone revise prose pebble broke type virtue sauce feeble spoke lyre propose sedge humble like state arrive sponge noble take sphere ...
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... mode chaste extreme mature caprice diverse scarce adverse future auspice ample active native secure avarice Add -ment to impede , rude ; -tude to sole , ingrate , serve . ninety safety EXCEPTIONS . surety liquefy rarefy . 2. When the ...
... mode chaste extreme mature caprice diverse scarce adverse future auspice ample active native secure avarice Add -ment to impede , rude ; -tude to sole , ingrate , serve . ninety safety EXCEPTIONS . surety liquefy rarefy . 2. When the ...
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... mode of spelling is admissible . : EXAMPLES . travelling travelled traveled travel or traveling traveller traveler ... modes : - counsel revel cancel trammel tunnel quarrel ravel shovel equal libel level carol chisel cudgel drivel ...
... mode of spelling is admissible . : EXAMPLES . travelling travelled traveled travel or traveling traveller traveler ... modes : - counsel revel cancel trammel tunnel quarrel ravel shovel equal libel level carol chisel cudgel drivel ...
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...