Orthography, Etymology, and PunctuationA. Flanagan Company, 1908 |
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... Words into Syllables . Accent Articulation List of Words often Mispronounced . PART SECOND - ORTHOGRAPHY Rules for ... 10 14 16 22 23 24 29 31 35 37 40 44 49 55 56 59 62 65 68 70 70 72 74 Accent 75 Articulation 76 Rules for Spelling 76 ...
... Words into Syllables . Accent Articulation List of Words often Mispronounced . PART SECOND - ORTHOGRAPHY Rules for ... 10 14 16 22 23 24 29 31 35 37 40 44 49 55 56 59 62 65 68 70 70 72 74 Accent 75 Articulation 76 Rules for Spelling 76 ...
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... write the vowels on the blackboard , with their diacritical marks , and require the pupils to name them promptly . Artificial monosyl- labic words ... words with the proper diacritical marks to 20 ORTHOGRAPHY , ORTHOEPY , AND PUNCTUATION .
... write the vowels on the blackboard , with their diacritical marks , and require the pupils to name them promptly . Artificial monosyl- labic words ... words with the proper diacritical marks to 20 ORTHOGRAPHY , ORTHOEPY , AND PUNCTUATION .
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... 20. Give Grigham Grimes Jim's great gilt gig - whip . 21. Smith's spirit flask split Philip's sixth sister's fifth squirrel's skull skillfully . LIST OF WORDS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED . WORD . abdomen CORRECT . ǎb - do ' - měn INCORRECT ...
... 20. Give Grigham Grimes Jim's great gilt gig - whip . 21. Smith's spirit flask split Philip's sixth sister's fifth squirrel's skull skillfully . LIST OF WORDS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED . WORD . abdomen CORRECT . ǎb - do ' - měn INCORRECT ...
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S. R. Winchell. Write the plural of the following words : hat , ring , cress , trace , bush , brush , box , eye ... ten such words in our language . " Moreover , most words have different shades of meaning , so that in some connections ...
S. R. Winchell. Write the plural of the following words : hat , ring , cress , trace , bush , brush , box , eye ... ten such words in our language . " Moreover , most words have different shades of meaning , so that in some connections ...
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... list , make other syno- nyms from them by using affixes ; as , newness , novelty ; godli- ness , piety . As a further study of words ... words . Give synonyms of the following ... 10-21 68 ORTHOGRAPHY , ORTHOEPY , AND PUNCTUATION . Homonyms.
... list , make other syno- nyms from them by using affixes ; as , newness , novelty ; godli- ness , piety . As a further study of words ... words . Give synonyms of the following ... 10-21 68 ORTHOGRAPHY , ORTHOEPY , AND PUNCTUATION . Homonyms.
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abbreviation accent Anglo-Saxon apostrophe becomes English black boot-black boot breath called câre cent clause cognate colon comma common compound word consonant containing the sound dash derived diacritical marks digraph diphthongs diphthongs and triphthongs doctor doctor English alphabet English language Exception exercise final syllable five examples following words French give given grammar Greek homonyms hyphen illustrate Indo-European languages labial labio-dental Latin marks of parenthesis meaning medial misspelled modified mute nouns omitted orthoepy paragraph paronyms penult period Phoenician Phoenician alphabet phrase plural prefix pronounced pronunciation punctuation pupils quotation Repeat RULE represent root RULE VII semicolon semivowels sentence separate silent silent letters sometimes sonant sound of g sound of long spelling suffix surd syllable synonyms teacher thistles tion tongue trigraphs triphthong unaccented syllables usually verb vowel vowel sounds WEBSTER Webster's Dictionary white boot-black WORCESTER words containing Write ten words written
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