The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools; Containing a Thorough Course of Preliminary Exercises in Articulation, Pronunciation, Accent, &C., Numerous Exercises in Reading, a New System of References, and a Copious Explanatory Index (Paperback)

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 to 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 (9), to signify that it is to be pronounced soft, like s. 11. The Dioe'resis ( ), a Greek word signifying a dirision, divides 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 is customary to make two syllables of the word blessed, and three of the word beloved, andc., though in common speech we make but one, and two. 12. A mark identical with the hyphen (- ) is sometimes placed over a vowel to denote that the quantity is long; as in note, revolt, remote, accede. This mark, when thus used, is called by some grammarians a Muk'ron, from a Grcek word signifying lany. The mark called the Breve (from the Latin ttrevis, short) is placed over a vowel to indicate that it is short; as in hat, met, yet, Ilatena, pit, not, but, crystal. 13. When the Mak'ron is placed over an a, remember that the letter thus marked should be sound...