Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. For ere that steep ascent was won, High in his pathway hung the sun. - SIR WALTER Scott. 2. The vows to which her lips had sworn assent. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 3. The ship is decked out in all her canvas, every sail swelled and careering gayly over the curling waves. WASHINGTON IRVING. 4. No previous canvass was made for me. EDMUND Burke. 5. In all governments truly republican, men are noth-principle is everything - DANIEL WEBSTER. 6. Can you remember any of the principal evils that he laid to the charge of women? There were none principal; they were all like one another as half-pence are. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 7. There's none ever fear'd that the truth should be heard, But they whom the truth would indict. ROBERT BUrns. 8. Robert Burns has indited many songs that slip into the heart.-JOHN WILSON. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Now Nature hangs her mantle green And spreads her sheets of daisies white 3. Use the 2. Mock oranges and conch shells decorated the mantelpiece; and strings of various-colored birds' eggs were suspended above it. -WASHINGTON IRVING. 3. Startling with martial sounds each rude recess, Where the deep echo slept in loneliness. 4. Reason becomes the marshal to my will And leads me. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 5. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. - WILLIAM COWPER. 6. Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. Some words pronounced nearly alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 4. Distinguish carefully any differences in the sounds of words nearly alike. ROBERT Your interest in the poet's weal. — Robert Burns. 3. O the dreary, dreary moorland! O the barren, barren shore! ALFred Tennyson. 4. The flower among our barons bold. - ROBERT Burns. How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 6. And when his juicy salads failed, Sliced carrot pleased him well. -— WILLIAM COWPER. 7. Oh, sweet is thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower! - HORACE Wallace. 8. So coin grows smooth, in traffic current passed, Till Cæsar's image is effaced at last. - WILLIAM COWPER. 9. The currant must escape Though her small clusters imitate the grape. -NAHUM TATE. A useful prefix. sub means under; as, subscribe, to write under. In words from the Latin it is regularly suc- before c, suf- before f, sug- before g, and sup- before p; sum- before m, and sur- before r occur in a few instances. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Was never subject longed to be a king, As I do long and wish to be a subject. 2. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambition. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGfellow. 3. Who breathes, must suffer; and who thinks, must 4. They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. 5. The sun was set, and Vesper to supply His absent beams had lighted up the sky. 6. Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. -RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 7. But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed, Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world. - ROBERT BROWNING. Some words pronounced nearly alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 4. Distinguish carefully sounds of words nearly alike. 1. A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.- ROBERT BURTON. 3. But 'tis done - all words are idle Words from me are vainer still GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 4. Raised by the mole, the miner of the soil. 5. Men's great actions are performed in minor struggles. 6. Tell her, if you will, that sorrow Need not come in vain ; Tell her that the lesson taught her Far outweighs the pain. - ADELAIDE A. PROCTER. 7. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. -CHARLES Lamb. |