Word-book of English Spelling, Oral and Written: Designed to Attain Practical Results in the Acquisition of the Ordinary English Vocabulary, and to Serve as an Introduction to Word-analysisIvison, Blakeman, Taylor,, 1874 - 154 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 94 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.
Σελίδα 152 - 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...
Σελίδα 96 - ... of murder, who were cruel only from cowardice and calculating selfishness, are perfectly willing to transfer their venal pens to any government that does not disdain their infamous support. These men, republicans from servility, who published rhetorical panegyrics on massacre, and who reduced plunder to a system of ethics, are as ready to preach slavery as anarchy. But the more daring, I had almost said the more respectable, ruffians cannot so easily bend their heads under the yoke. These fierce...
Σελίδα 152 - NO DOUBLING. A final consonant, when it is not preceded by a single vowel, or when the accent is not on the last syllable, should remain single before an additional syllable : as, toil, toiling ; visit, visited ; general, generalize.
Σελίδα 84 - ... after it In music, an eighth, or an interval of eight sounds, or of seven degrees, or twelve semitones. The Octave is the most perfect of the chords, consisting of six full tones and two semitones major.
Σελίδα 108 - Days of grace, the days allowed for the payment of a bill after it becomes due. In the United States, and in Great Britain and her dependencies, the number of days of grace is three ; but it varies very much in other commercial states, reaching 30 days in Genoa, there being none allowed at Leghorn. Bills drawn at sight are usually paid when presented, without grace. Debenture...
Σελίδα 27 - Other sounds spelled -«'-: counterfeit, foreign, height, heir. Doubling the Final Consonant Double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel (-able, -ed, -er, -ing) with ( 1 ) words of one syllable ending in a single consonant after a single vowel (brag, hit, sit) and (2) with words of more than one syllable, ending the same way and accented on the last syllable (commit, forget, prefer). One-syllable words Words of more than one syllable The consonant is not doubled ( 1 ) in words...