Ever never

miner dinner finer thinner

later latter skater scatter

stoker docker voter hotter

meter letter Peter better

fever ever lever never

3. a sofa a comma

soda delta China

delta shelter China miner

offer sofa fodder soda

late data safe sofa rode soda

4. stand – standing rest – resting help - helping print - printing

tell – telling sell – selling dress - dressing black - blacking

get – getting swim stop - stopping map - mapping

take – taking make making vote - voting type - typing

hop – hopping hope - hoping plan - planning plane - planing

sit - sitting write – writing win – winning mine - mining

filling - filing backing – baking sticking – striking stocking - smoking

I. Give the infinitives of the following ing-forms:

Thanking, taking, risking, striking, standing, stating, sending, setting, drinking, dripping, jumping, running, helping, telling, resting, dressing, acting, backing.

Writing, sitting, hoping, stopping, ruling, rubbing, filling, filing, missing, rising, locking, smoking, setting, selling, begging, pressing, robbing, rocking.

II. Arrange the following words in columns according to the number of syllables in each word and to the type of stressed syllable. Use this scheme:

One-Syllable Words		Two-Syllable Words
Closed syllable	Open syllable	Closed stressed syllable	Open stressed syllable

Banner, be, box, chapter, China, club, differ, enter, go, help, home, ill, it, later, letter, liner, map, me, name, number, paper, red, same, side, sister, sit, smoker, take, this, tube, under, voter, which, winter, why.

Material for Rapid Reading

A better rider, a missing letter, a hotter summer, a pressing matter, a better living, a better skater, a missing comma, a better swimmer, a richer supper, a better sprinter.

Ringing bells, spinning tops, ringing gongs, finer china, finer timber.

The winning runner, the wrong number, the smiling winner, the sinking wreck, the wrong chapter.

In running brooks, in a stiffer manner, in a safe shelter, in a blacker pit, in a thicker wrap, in a rising gale, in a bad temper.

At a safer landing, on a sloping hill, on the wrong track.

With a silver lining, with a paper stopper, with a rising glide, with a rusting latch, with shining knobs, with a thicker poker, with rubber bands, with red pepper.

LESSON TWO

SECTION VII.

Two-Syllable Words (Continued)

+Syllabic Consonants

1. gem - gin – gyps jet - Jim - jilt

jam - job - just Jane - joke - James

Get give

yoke - joke jet - yet jest - yes

James - games jot - got just - gust

jam - gem – gum Jim - gin - gun

jet - get – go Jove - give - gave

chin - gin chips - gyps choke - joke check - Jack drips - gyps drop – job dram - jam drove - Jove

trust - just trade – jade tram - jam trim - Jim

2. age page stage huge

ice nice face place

size prize gaze glaze

rice - rise this – price ice - wise price - prize race - raze

miss - mice yes - place fuss - face

gaze - jazz size - buzz dozing - buzzing

face - fake spice - spike dice - dyke

pace - pack price - prick nice - nick

lace - lack lake - race rack - rake

3. bridge – edge badge – judge since – pence sense - tense

ledge - ledger lodge - lodger fence - fencer dense – denser

bulge - plunge hinge - singe change - range strange - danger

pens - pence fens - fence sins - since tens - tense dens - dense ells - else

rinse rise else these wince wine solve stove twelve eve solve sole badge page judge huge ridge ride range rage strange stage mange mane

add - badge odd - dodge egg - edge

bad - badge - bag led - ledge - leg mud - smudge - mug rid - ridge - rig

budding - budging ladder – badger egging – edging stagger - stager

etch edge crutch grudge rich ridge

lunch plunge winch twinge inch hinge

sing singe flung plunge bulk bulge

rang range hang change drank strange

4. sudden written spoken open

sentence absent student silence

distance constant human slogan

lesson common cotton bacon

pen open ten written

sent absent cent recent

tent patent dent student

tense sentence man human

lesson lessen cotton rotten

ribbon ridden summon sudden bacon taken slogan token

constant patent instance sentence

5. nickel vessel channel tunnel signal crystal final total symbol fossil pencil pupil

bell label pill pupil sill fossil

final funnel tunnel signal symbol label pistol crystal

6. tape tune strife type

table bugle rifle cycle

table cable able idle cycle

little settle bottle middle struggle

simple handle jungle angle single

little – title sickle - cycle bottle – noble middle – idle apple - able struggle - bugle

sing - single hang - angle lung - jungle settle - setter sickle - thicker battle - matter bottle - hotter sickle - nickel little - crystal cycle - local table - label

7. won wonder

one = won

won run wonder under wan won wander wonder

one stone one cone one bone one zone

one gun one bun one bundle one number