The Modern Spelling Book: Designed as a Guide in the Study of the Orthography, Pronunciation, and Meaning of Common English WordsButler, Sheldon & Company, 1897 - 160 من الصفحات |
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accented syllables adjectives adverbs An.-Saxon Anglo-Saxon āte ble Lesson çent çep'tion çir eum columns consonant dençe diacritical marks DICTATION EXERCISE DICTATION REVIEW Diphthong dís eär eāte ĕl'e ençe eov'er erys'tal eūte ĕv'er fōre Form nouns gā tor Homophones IMPROPERLY SOUNDED in'ter language last syllable lāte Latin leet lent lib'er loŭs Macron māte ment mis'sion mō'tion NAMES nent ness nouns are derived oŭs păr pâr'ent Participles pěn plural pō'nent poş pōşe pōst prē prefix pronunciation pupils rāte silent letters Sound of short spelling SUBVOCALS suffix Suffixes which form SYNONYMOUS ta'tion tē'ri TEST WORDS tive tōr trǎet trans u'ni unaccented syllables unmarked văn Various sounds vāte Verbs vowels wâre Write
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الصفحة 100 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
الصفحة 115 - Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
الصفحة 87 - Words of one syllable, and words of more than one syllable with the accent on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel...
الصفحة 5 - A syllable is either a word or part of a word spoken with one effort of the voice. A monosyllable is a word of one syllable. A dissyllable is a word of two syllables. A trisyllable is a word of three syllables. A polysyllable is a word of four or more syllables.
الصفحة 94 - The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
الصفحة 100 - Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and it becomes so strong that we cannot break it.
الصفحة 94 - ... truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam ; though this ill hap wait on her nativity, that she never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth...
الصفحة 121 - If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them ; if exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates...
الصفحة 94 - If he chance to die young, yet he lives long that lives well ; and time misspent is not lived but lost. Besides, God is better than his promise, if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of...
الصفحة 5 - A Primitive word is one that is not derived from any other word in the language ; as, boy, just, father.