 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 210 Seiten
...the present and past generations of men. CHAPTER II. OF SYLLABLES, AND THE RULES FOR ARRANGING THEM. A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded,...Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into tjii'.ir syllables, or of expressing a word by its proper letters. The following are the general rules... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832
...AMD THE RULES FoR ARRANGING THEM. A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded, pronounced hy a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a...Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllahles, or of expressing a word hy its proper letters. The following are the general rules for the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 340 Seiten
...SYLLABLES, and the RULES for arranging them. A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded, produced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting...syllables, or of expressing a word by its proper letters. The following are the general rules for the division of words into syllables. 1. A single consonant... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1834 - 192 Seiten
...sounded ; as, ea in eagle, oa in boat. A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded, uttered by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. A word of one syllable is called a Monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond - 1835 - 70 Seiten
...Is there a diphthong or triphthong in t'he word youihl — Is it proper or improper ? — LESSON II. A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded,...and constituting a word, or part of a word: as, a, on, ant. The following are the general rules for the division of words into syllables. ' 1. A single... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837
...but one of the vowels sounded; as, ea in eagle, oa in boat. OF SYLLABLES. Q. What is a syllable ? A. A syllable* is a sound either simple or compounded,...constituting a word, or part of a word; as, a, an, ant. Q. What is spelling ? A. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables; or of... | |
 | Pietro Bachi - 1838 - 568 Seiten
...SOUNDS, are formed of syllables, and syllables of letters. SYLLABLES consist of one or more letters pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word. Words that consist of one syllable, are called monosyllables; those that consist of two syllables,... | |
 | Jacob Abbot Cummings - 1838 - 166 Seiten
...beat, ou in soimd^ A tripJithang is the union of three Vowels in,one syllable ; as, ieu in adieu, lieu. A syllable is a sound, either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse or effort of the voice, and constituting a word or part of a word ; as mow, man-ful. Words are articulate,... | |
 | J. W. R. - 1839 - 130 Seiten
...! 18. What is a triphthong t 19. What is a proper diphthong, and what are improper 1 SYLLABLES. 1. A SYLLABLE is a sound either simple or compounded,...constituting a word, or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. 2. SPELLING is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables ; or of expressing a word by... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 212 Seiten
...vowels sounded ; as ea in eagle, oa in boat. SYLLABLES. A syllable is a sound either simple or compound, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant, and ./a in father. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables ; or of expressing... | |
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A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word: as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables ; or of expressing a word by... 
