58. Following is a list of commonly used interjections. Use them in sentences of your own.
- oh
- hello
- bravo
- ahoy
- aha
- hurrah
- bow wow
- ssh
- alas
- hist
- whirr
- pshaw
- fie
- whoa
- ding-dong
- rub-a-dub
Exercise 6
Mark the interjections in the following sentences. Notice those which express emotion and those which imitate sound.
- Oh! Is it possible.
- Hurrah! We have good news at last.
- Whirr! Whirr! goes the giant machine.
- Come! Keep up your courage.
- What! I cannot believe it.
- Courage! We shall yet win.
- Bravo! Let those words ring down the centuries.
- Ding-dong! the bells ring out the hour!
SPELLING
LESSON 3
Since there are forty-two elementary sounds used in the formation of our words and only twenty-six letters to represent these sounds, some of these letters must necessarily represent more than one sound.
Of the forty-two elementary sounds, eighteen are vowel sounds, but we have only five vowels with which to represent these sounds, so each vowel has several different sounds.
Therefore we must have a key to pronunciation to indicate the various sounds which are represented by these letters used in forming the words. When you look up words in your dictionary you will find the vowels marked by certain signs to indicate the pronunciation. These signs are called diacritical marks.