1. A subject.

XXIV. A proposition contains {2. A predicate.

APPENDIX TO PART II.

I. RULES FOR SPELLING.

1. What is a monosyllable? Give three examples.

2. What is a vowel? Name the vowels.

3. What is a consonant? Mention five letters that are consonants. 4. Read the following list of words, and tell (a) how many of them are monosyllables, (b) how many of them contain a single vowel, (c) in what consonant each ends, (d) whether or not the consonant is doubled:

miss, cress, class,

less,

stress,

puff,

knoll,

snuff,

toll,

toss.

brass,
dross, mass, press, buff,

1. What is the rule for spelling a monosyllable which contains a single vowel and ends in f, l, or s?

(1) When a monosyllable which contains a single vowel ends in f, in 1, or in s, the final consonant should be doubled; thus,

2. Learn to spell these words, which are exceptions to the

3. What other monosyllables, except such as end in ƒ, l, or s, double the final consonant?

The final consonant is doubled in the monosyllables

When two vowels are combined to produce one sound, as ou in out, or oi in oil, the vowels form a diphthong (dif-thong).

5. What is an "improper diphthong"?

When two vowels are united in one syllable, and one of them is silent, the vowels form an "improper diphthong"; thus,

rain,

steam,

loan.

6. What is the rule for the final consonant of a monosyllable which contains a diphthong?

(2) When a monosyllable contains a diphthong, the final consonant is never doubled; thus,

7. When c follows a vowel in a monosyllable that ends in the sound of k, how is the word spelled?

(3) When c follows a vowel in a monosyllable that ends in the sound of k, the consonant k is added after c;

thus,-
black,

block,

stick,

neck,

knock.

*The word guess seems to be an exception. The u is introduced to make

the g hard.