Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... the correct writing or spelling of words is called Orthography . We write , or spell , with letters , so orthography deals with the alphabet . W. E. G. 3 37. If we are asked , -Are Orthography and Orthoëpy THE DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR . 33.
... the correct writing or spelling of words is called Orthography . We write , or spell , with letters , so orthography deals with the alphabet . W. E. G. 3 37. If we are asked , -Are Orthography and Orthoëpy THE DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR . 33.
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... alphabet . Pronounce it as if you intended to say bad , but changed your mind and stopped as soon as the first letter had escaped . The sound is an instantaneous one . There is a sudden explosion of the b ' , and to prolong it is ...
... alphabet . Pronounce it as if you intended to say bad , but changed your mind and stopped as soon as the first letter had escaped . The sound is an instantaneous one . There is a sudden explosion of the b ' , and to prolong it is ...
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... alphabet we are obliged to use combinations of two letters , -digraphs , as grammarians call them , —to represent six of these con- 1 Adopted , as is also the table of Vowel - sounds on p . 45 , from Miss Soames's Introduction to the ...
... alphabet we are obliged to use combinations of two letters , -digraphs , as grammarians call them , —to represent six of these con- 1 Adopted , as is also the table of Vowel - sounds on p . 45 , from Miss Soames's Introduction to the ...
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... alphabet , we shall see that some of them find no place in our classification . The following letters are absent ... alphabet to furnish us with separate signs for simple sounds but not for compound sounds . If the alphabet ...
... alphabet , we shall see that some of them find no place in our classification . The following letters are absent ... alphabet to furnish us with separate signs for simple sounds but not for compound sounds . If the alphabet ...
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... alphabet , and nobody but an American humourist would employ it in spelling other words , writing ' h & some ' for handsome and ' underst & ' for under- stand . The like criticism applies to the compound sound represented by j . The ...
... alphabet , and nobody but an American humourist would employ it in spelling other words , writing ' h & some ' for handsome and ' underst & ' for under- stand . The like criticism applies to the compound sound represented by j . The ...
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