English spelling: dictation lessons, arranged by A.H. Barford and H.A. Tilley |
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... verbs , passed = past , stepped stept , looked = lookt , worshipped worshipt . = = Attention to these remarks will account for the many anomalies in English spelling , as well as the great number of homonyms in the language , and ...
... verbs , passed = past , stepped stept , looked = lookt , worshipped worshipt . = = Attention to these remarks will account for the many anomalies in English spelling , as well as the great number of homonyms in the language , and ...
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... plurals of nouns , the third person singular , present tense , and the past partici- ples . of verbs ending in y , as flies , pries , fried , & c 2nd , participials ending in ient , as sufficient . 14 DICTATION LESSONS .
... plurals of nouns , the third person singular , present tense , and the past partici- ples . of verbs ending in y , as flies , pries , fried , & c 2nd , participials ending in ient , as sufficient . 14 DICTATION LESSONS .
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... verbs ending in o , as cargoes , echoes . EXAMPLES . Hoe the ground around the potatoes . Aloes bloom but seldom . The sloe is a wild fruit . A shoe - horn . The death throes of the roe caused her a pang of woe . The cruisers seized ...
... verbs ending in o , as cargoes , echoes . EXAMPLES . Hoe the ground around the potatoes . Aloes bloom but seldom . The sloe is a wild fruit . A shoe - horn . The death throes of the roe caused her a pang of woe . The cruisers seized ...
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... verbs on the last syllable , in dissyllables , and the last but one in trisyllables . The convict has been thrice convicted . That contract is null and void . He contracts by the year . I conjure you do not conjure in my presence . What ...
... verbs on the last syllable , in dissyllables , and the last but one in trisyllables . The convict has been thrice convicted . That contract is null and void . He contracts by the year . I conjure you do not conjure in my presence . What ...
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... verb is very irregular with English writers . In the Game Licences issued in 1866 , licence and license were both written as the noun . Webster has practice , licence , both noun and verb . SECTION VI . DOUBLE CONSONANTS . Bb , cc , 50 ...
... verb is very irregular with English writers . In the Game Licences issued in 1866 , licence and license were both written as the noun . Webster has practice , licence , both noun and verb . SECTION VI . DOUBLE CONSONANTS . Bb , cc , 50 ...
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accent affixes beginning apocrypha belong all words boar whets bread called chamois CHARLES BEAN chilblain church class belong cloth compound words consonant derivation diphthong diphthong sound drop dyvers effervesce English language English Spelling English writers EXAMPLES Exercise final consonant final letter flat mute foreign words four sounds French Germ Giaour Greek hoeing honour horse hysterics imbecility INFLEXIONS island Isle Italian Justices in Eyre Latin laudanum Leoht Lerwick licence lond Lord Lord High Almoner manner monosyllables noun oakum pair Philip prefixes and affixes pronounced purloin Rime frost river root rude Carinthian boor Samian wine Saxon sche SECTION semi-vowel sharp mute ship Simon the tanner skewer sword syllable Teetotalism termination Thá thaet Therfore three sounds tree Ui uy verbs vowel waes weather whets his tusks wield wine words are spelt words ending wore write written diphthong yacht
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Page 91 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still ; The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill...
Page 90 - Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadie grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand ; Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide...
Page 90 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 91 - And foorth they passe, with pleasure forward led, Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred, .Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
Page 91 - Led with delight, they thus beguile the way, Untill the blustring storme is overblowne; When weening to returne, whence they did stray, They cannot finde that path, which first was showne, But wander too and fro in wayes unknowne...
Page 65 - All words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, and accented on the last syllable, double that consonant in derivatives : as, commit, committee ; compel, compelled; appal, appalling; distil, distiller.
Page 100 - Na he that ay hass levyt fre, May nocht knaw weill the propyrte, The angyr, na the wrechyt dome, That is cowplyt to foule thyrldome. Bot gyff he had assayit it, Than all perquer he suld it wyt ; And suld think fredome mar to pryss, Than all the gold in warld that is.
Page 90 - And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his, dying lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield -the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope, which in his helpe he had.
Page 90 - So pure and innocent, as that same lambe, She was in life and every vertuous lore ; And by descent from Royall lynage came Of ancient...
Page 90 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his baeke.