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accent adjective animal authority Belonging body carry cause clear close cloth collection color complete Consisting consonant Containing contract CORUSCATED cover denotes derived desire direct disease distinction double the final draw dress effect examination excellence express false force formed give given Grammar hand heard important instruct kind language learning letter light live manner mark meaning measure mind move nature noun omit the final pain participles perform person Pertaining plant preceded principles produced pronounced QUESTIONS.-State the difference QUESTIONS.-What reason Relating Repeat the words rest retain round RULE sense sentence separate severe ship short signifies sorrow sound Spell strong substance syllable thing thought turn unite utter verb words classed writing written
Passatges populars
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...