n what does correct spelling mainly depend?
11. What is the best way to become a good speller?
12. Why is English difficult to pronounce?
13. What is a diphthong?
14. What is a digraph?
15. What are the two sounds each of _c_, _g_, _de_, _th_, and _s_? Give
examples of each.
16. How many letters are there in the English alphabet and how many sounds
do they express?
17. Upon what does correct pronunciation depend?
18. What is a syllable, and of what does it consist?
19. What peculiar use is made of _l_ and _n_ in English?
20. How do we treat the parts of a diphthong or digraph?
21. How do we know whether or not these compounds are diphthongs or
digraphs?
22. What about vowel combinations?
23. With what should a syllable not end?
24. With what should a syllable not begin?
25. What is the rule regarding prefixes and suffixes?
26. How do we treat two or three consonants capable of beginning a
syllable?
27. How do we treat two or three consonants capable of ending a syllable?
28. How do we treat doubled consonants?
29. What is accent?
30. Do words ever have more than one accent, and why?
31. What are the two general rules for the placing of accent?
32. What did the early printers do when the words did not fit the line, and
why?
33. What practice came into use later?
34. What methods of doing this have been devised?
35. What considerations govern practice in this regard?
36. Give two systems of division which have been proposed.
37. What is the general rule for division?
38. What is the rule about vowels?
39. What is the rule about two consonants?
40. What is the rule about three consonants?
41. What should you do with a single consonant between two vowels?
42. How should you treat diphthongs?
43. What is the rule for words compounded with a prefix?
44. What should be done with the terminations _-able_, _-ible_, _-tion_,
_-cial_, _-tive_, _-ive_, and _-sion_?
45. What should be done with the terminations _-ing_, _-en_, _-ed_, _-er_,
and _-est_, and the plural _-es_?
46. What letters should not end a line?
47. How are adjectives in _ical_ treated?
48. How are derivatives of words ending in _-t_ treated?
49. What is the special rule about _c_ and _g_?
50. What is the rule about _qu_, and why?
51. What is the rule about _nothing_?
52. What is the rule about words of four letters?
53. How should you treat words of five or six letter
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