The Standard First[-Fifth] Reader
by Epes Sargent
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217897020
Paperback|9780217897020
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: over words in the present work (the letters Ei referring the reader tc the Explanatory Index, and the figures to the corresponding numbers of paragraphs in Part I.) are called Superiors by the printers. The reader should make himself familiar with these references, and the information to which they point. 10. The Brace ('') is used to connect two or more words, to show their relation to a common definition or term. The Caret (a) is used only in writing to point to something interlined above it. The Cedilla is used under the French c, thus (c), to signify that it is to be pronounced soft, like s. 11. The Dioe'resis ( ), a Greek word signifying a division, dividrs two vowels into two syllables that would otherwise make a diphthong; as, Creator. It may also be placed over a vowel to show that the vowel commences a new syllable; as, blessed, aged, learned, though the grave or acute accent is sometimes used for this purpose. In poetry, in the preterites and past participles of verbs, it is often intended that the termination ed should form a distinct syllable, in order to make the measure complete; and in reading the Bible it ia customary to make two syllables of the word blessed, and threa of the word beloved,
| ISBN-13 | 9780217897020 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217897029 |
| Weight | 1.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.86 In |
| List Price | $19.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 386 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-09-01 |
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