English Is Easy, Beginning Level

English is classified as a Germanic language such as Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Celtic, and Gaelic (Scotland and Ireland). Words such as 'get' come from the Norwegian word 'getta' and 'get' is more commonly used by Americans whose pronunciation and spelling comes from a dictionary compiled by Daniel Webster, who was appointed head of the US. Government Printing Office by President George Washington. He chose the Scotch-Irish accents as they were the teachers of early schools as the...
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English is classified as a Germanic language such as Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Celtic, and Gaelic (Scotland and Ireland). Words such as 'get' come from the Norwegian word 'getta' and 'get' is more commonly used by Americans whose pronunciation and spelling comes from a dictionary compiled by Daniel Webster, who was appointed head of the US. Government Printing Office by President George Washington. He chose the Scotch-Irish accents as they were the teachers of early schools as the English preferred to go into business and make money. While regional accents did develop from the French of Louisiana and Mississippi to the Southern drawl of the South to the clipped New England accents, the preferred accent of Americans today is the Midwest accent. With the different words coming from Greek, Latin, German, and French predominate, it makes for changes in pronunciation (not Pronounciation). As math words and symbols are the same in all languages the books starts with cardinal and ordinal numbers then to different measures from the old Babylonian measures to metric measure developed by the French. The come the 61 Key Words which are from one to five words we use every time we speak English. Of course there will be more than "to be" with 'am, is, are, was, were, shall be, would be, could be' but only with some form of 'to be" can one use the 'ing' suffix to a verb. Next comes sentence structure and auxiliary verbs and verbs with a preposition change meaning of the verb with direction while Latin root words change meaning by prefix and words use is shown by suffixes. The author has drawn some cartoons to show uses of get, hold, and lists of prepositions such as 'in, out, up, down, out, and away' with a verb (get up, get down, get out, get away and go up, go down, go out, and go away and take up, take down, take out, and take away). There are examples given with climb, pass, turn, look, take, bring, carry, talk, say, tell, chat, speak. pick, choose, with present and past tenses of verbs and differences in American and British words, spelling and pronunciation (ie. vit a mins (Brit) and vi ta mins (Am). Verbs used as a noun are called 'gerunds'. There are the emphasizing and connective words which sound imposing but a simple explanation will alleviate the anxiety of students learning English. There are long lists of idioms and slang and clich#65533;s. Two syllable words used as nouns or verbs are understood by the the stress on the first syllable is a noun and the last syllable is a verb. Carry-Over/Linking Sounds, are from a consonant ending word or syllable to a following syllable or word that begins with a vowel.So "walking" is pronounced 'wal king' and "speaking" as 'spee king'. The past tense suffix of 'ed' has three different sounds from 'ted and ded' (wanted and needed), to 'looked' (lookt) to 'formed' (formd). These changes are associated with certain letters which are explained in the book.Pronunciation varies between British and American English for 'tomato', 'potato', 'vase'. Sean Connery stumbled over that and came up with "vayz" instead of 'vahz' (Br) or 'vace' (Am).With so many variations of English from African, East Indian, Caribbean, Australian, Hong Kong, and the Queen's English. there will be something called 'improper' English and this is discussed although many say when it is commonly used it is acceptable. 75Section 26: Pronunciation Checks 75Section 27: Sounds of Y, S, Sh, C, Ch, G, J,Th, and Greek Spelling 76Section 28: Silent e & Other Silent Letters Come Mainly from French 78Section 29: Accent Changes in Words Spelled the Same 80 Section 30: Germanic Prefixes Un & Mis and Suffixes less, ful, and ly 81