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Excerpt from Sheldons' Word Studies: Containing Graded Lessons in the Orthography of Words, and Their Correct Use in Sentences HE title Of this book, word studies, indicates its general scope and purpose. The difficulties of Eng lish orthography, together with the fact that correct Spelling is considered a test Of scholarship, have led teachers to make the spelling lesson a daily exercise. A pupil may know the meaning of a word and use it correctly, but still need to study its orthography. There are also many useful words with which the learner is not likely to become familiar through his reading lessons or other school exer cises, and when required to study simply the orthography of these less common words, the task becomes irksome and, to a considerable extent, unprofitable. This book is de signed to assist the teacher in his efforts to teach the orthography Of those familiar words which are likely to be misspelled, and at the same time to add new words to the pupil's vocabulary. To perfect pupils in the orthography of every-day words, they must be required to write them again and again. The meaning of a new word is frequently detected more readily by seeing or hearing it correctly used in a sentence than by studying its definitions. Considerable space, therefore, has been devoted to dictation exercises. In these the more common words are frequently repeated; and the pupil is unconsciously learning the use as well as the orthography of new words. The selections and dictation exercises have been chosen with care, and in every instance present a choice specimen Of composition, a beautiful thought, or useful information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.