Exercise 28
The following words are frequently mispronounced. Divide them into syllables, mark the accent, and pronounce carefully.
| municipal | exquisite | champion | accurately |
| interesting | gondola | inquiry | Genoa |
| influence | finance | inexplicable | alias |
| illustrate | deficit | despicable | expert |
| inventory | pretense | mischievous | impious |
| alternate | dirigible | perfume | detail |
CHAPTER III
SPELLING RULES
Exercise 29—Plurals of Nouns
| (a) | dress, dresses | (b) | chair, chairs |
| splash, splashes | wave, waves | ||
| business, businesses | book, books | ||
| church, churches | pencil, pencils | ||
| fox, foxes | paper, papers |
The usual way of forming the plural of English nouns is illustrated by the words in column (b) above. What is it?