Part 95 (2/2)

The author has a single thread of thought running through the different sentences which coraph and if we have trained ourselves well in sentence analysis, ill never lose this thread It will be like a life line to which we cling while the breakers of thought and e poem, study carefully the inverted order of the sentences Rewrite theical order As for example:

To the poor man you've been true from of old

The elements of the sentence are inverted in this quotation Rewritten in their logical order this would read:

You've been true to the poor man from of old

You will note that this inversion is quite common in poetry

HUNGER AND COLD

Sisters, two, all praise to you, With your faces pinched and blue; To the poor man you've been true, From of old; You can speak the keenest word, You are sure of being heard, Froer and Cold!

Let sleek statesmen temporize; Palsied are their shi+fts and lies When they meet your bloodshot eyes, Griht, In their traps you'll not be caught, You're too honest to be bought, Hunger and Cold!

Let thelower, Patient till your reckoning hour Shall be tolled; Cheeks are pale, but hands are red, Guiltless blood er and Cold!

God has plans man must not spoil, Some were made to starve and toil, Some to share the wine and oil, We are told; Devil's theories are these, Stifling hope and love and peace, Fraer and Cold!

Scatter ashes on thy head, Tears of burning sorrow shed, Earth! and be by Pity led To love's fold; Ere they block the very door With lean corpses of the poor, And will hush for naught but gore, Hunger and Cold!

--_Lowell_

SPELLING

LESSON 25

You remember in our lesson in the study of consonants we found there were a nulish which had _, _x_, etc

A number of other consonants have sounds which are sians of articulation in the same position, only one is a soft, and the other a hard sound; for example, _p_ and _b_, _t_ and _d_, _f_ and _v_, etc These sounds are called cognate sounds

Cognate means literally _of the same nature_, and so these sounds are of the saans is e contains a number of words in which there is a difference in the pronunciation of the final consonant when the word is used as a noun and as a verb The final consonants in these words are the cognate sounds, _f_, _v_; _t_, _d_; _th_ soft or _th_ hard, _s_ soft, or _s_ hard When the consonant sound is a soft sound, the word is a noun; and when the consonant sound is a hard sound the word is a verb For example; _use_ and _use_; _breath_ and _breathe_; _life_ and _live_, etc

The spelling lessons for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday contain words ending in cognate sounds, in which the words ending with a soft sound are nouns and the words ending in the hard sounds are verbs Add others to this list as they occur to you

We have a nu with _ex_ In some of these words, the _ex_ has the sound of _eks_, and in sos_ It is not easy at tiard to the use of _ex_, follow this rule: When a word beginning with _ex_ is followed by an accented syllable beginning with a vowel, the _ex_ is pronounced _egs_; in all other words _ex_ is pronounced _eks_; for example, in _executor_, the _ex_ is followed by an accented syllable beginning with a vowel, therefore, _ex_ is pronounced _egs_ In _execute_, the _ex_ is followed by an unaccented syllable beginning with a vowel, and therefore _ex_ is pronounced _eks_ In _explain_, _ex_ is followed by a syllable beginning with a consonant, and it is therefore pronounced _eks_

Note that in words like _exhibit_, _exhort_, etc, the _ex_ is followed by a vowel sound, the _h_ being silent, and it is therefore, pronounced _egs_, for it is followed by an accented syllable beginning with a vowel sound

The spelling list for Thursday, Friday and Saturday contains words beginning with _ex_ Watch carefully the pronunciation

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