The Smaller Standard Speller: Containing Classified Exercises for Oral Spelling, Also Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation |
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accent additional syllable aspirate sound bath begins a word bird of prey Birds boat bread breath broke Chough climbed Comma containing Words DICTATION AND WRITING dictation exercises digraph double the final draught ending in silent English EPES SARGENT fell final consonant fish following words form their plural gib'bet horse Hyphen italicized knout last syllable letter Makron mark milk Myrrh nasal consonant neigh nouns ending obscure sound path preceding syllable preterit pronounced rev'el rode sail sang ship shoe shov'el silent E sing single vowel sleigh slough soft sound of k sound of long sound of sh sound of short spelling syllable beginning Take thief thine thou took tree tried Unaccented Syllables v w x y z verb vocal voice vowel VOWEL SOUNDS Webster wharf Wor'ship Words ending words of Paragraph WRITING EXERCISES
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Page 65 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy 105 poverty come as one that travaileth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 65 - How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Page 67 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
Page 65 - DON'T is a contraction of do not, and not of does not. Don't for does not is a vulgarism. Contractions like haven't — have not ; isn't = is not, should not be encouraged. 4. DOTH and HATH, in the place of does and has, are sometimes used to express solemn and tender associations, or to avoid the too frequent repetition of the letter s. 5. I WOULD RATHER...
Page 5 - A digraph is a union of two vowels, or of two consonants, in one sound. A syllable is a single sound represented by one or more letters ; as a, an, and. In every syllable there must be at least one vowel sound. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable, as just ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable, as just'ice ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable, as just'i-fy ; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable, as just-ijica'tion.
Page 70 - The following nouns ending in /, or fe, form the plural by changing their endings into ves : beef, beeves ; calf, calves ; elf, elves ; half, halves ; knife, knives ; leaf, leaves ; life, lives ; loaf, loaves ; self, selves ; sheaf, sheaves ; shelf, shelves ; thief, thieves ; wife, wives ; wolf, wolves.
Page 67 - Primitive words ending in y, preceded by a consonant, change the y into i before any termination but 's, or one commencing with i ; as, merry, merrier ; pity, pitiless.
Page 69 - Most nouns ending in o, preceded by a consonant, form the plural by the addition of es; as, cargo, cargoes; hero, heroes...
Page 49 - When arch, signifying chief, begins a word from the Greek language, and is followed by a vowel, it is always pronounced ark, as in archangel, archipelago, architect, archives, archetype, archaism, archiepiscopal, archidiaconal, architrave, archaiology.
Page 6 - A primitive word is one not derived from ^another, but constituting a radical itock, from which others are derived ; as hope, grace, earth. A derivative word is one formed from a primitive, with the addition of some prefix or affix ; as hopeful, grace'less, earth'en, dis-grace1.