The Speller and Definer's Manual

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Daniel Burgess & Company, 1855 - 290 pàgines

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Pàgina 11 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, -when they end with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, or by a vowel after qu...
Pàgina 5 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n ; O, o...
Pàgina 14 - A PREFIX is a word, or part of a word, placed before another to form with it a new word.
Pàgina 18 - Fellow of the Royal Society." In a general view, the period separates the paragraph into sentences ; the semicolon divides a compound sentence into simple ones ; and the comma collects into clauses the scattered circumstances of manner time, place, relation, &c., belonging to every verb and to every noun.
Pàgina 17 - When a sentence consists of several members, each constituting a distinct proposition, and having a dependence upon each other, or upon some common clause, they are separated by semicolons; as, "Wisdom has builded her house; she hath hewn out her seven pillars ; she hath killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ; she hath also furnished her table.
Pàgina 14 - There are two numbers ; the singular and the plural. The singular number is that which denotes but one ; as, The boy learns.
Pàgina 12 - The final e mute of a primitive word is generally omitted before an additional termination beginning with a vowel : as, rate, ratable ; force, forcible ; rave, raving ; eye, eying. Exo.— Words ending in ce...
Pàgina 11 - ... syllable that begins with a vowel : as, rob, robber ; permit, permitting ; acquit, acquittal, acquitting.
Pàgina 185 - To put out of one place into another, to put in motion ; to give an impulse to ; to propose, to recommend ; to persuade ; to prevail on the mind ; to affect, to touch pathetically, to stir passion ; to make angry : to conduct regularly in motion.
Pàgina 1 - SPELLING-BOOK combined, in which the most Useful Words in the English Language are Spelled, Pronounced, and Defined, and arranged in Classes; together with Rules for Spelling, Prefixes and Suffixes, Rules for the Use of Capitals, Punctuation Marks, Quotations from other Languages used in English Composition, Abbreviations, &c., &c. To which is added a Vocabulary of Reference. Price 60 cts. In this book, designed for the highest class, we have, 1st, A dissertation on the...

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