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Title: Community English, a book of undertakings for boys and girls
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Flagg, Mildred (Buchanan) Mrs. 1886-
Subjects: English language Project method in teaching
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ls you have to use; for not until then will you beable to undertake new tasks alone. You must know howto use letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and books.The dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, index, and gazetteerare treasure houses of valuable information. Indeed, sovaluable a tool is the dictionary that you will need to useit almost every day. Does it not seem worth while, there-fore, to learn how to use it efficiently? Fortunately, youwill find that learning how to use the dictionary and otherbooks of reference is not a difficult task, but like pianoplaying it requires practice. Many boys and girls havegreatly enjoyed doing the work suggested in this yourfourth UNDERTAKING To collect data from reference hooks: the dicticn-ary, the encyclopedia, the gazetteer, the atlas, the cardcatalogue, the dictionary of quotations, a general maga-zine index, a book index, a table of contents, WhosWho, and World Almanac. Suggestive questions. — Be prepared to answer thefollowing questions: 85
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u The Use of Reference Books 87 1. What is a dictionary? Name three large dictionariesyou have used. 2. What five things about a word can you find out ))ylooking it up in a dictionary? 3. What does the word vocabulary mean? 4. What are dictionary guide words? How do theylielp you locate a word ? 5. What do these marks mean when they are placedabove a word, (0, CO? 6. Is the accent mark used with words of one syllable? 7. In a dictionary, the first letter of each word isarranged alphabetically ; how are the second, the third, andthe fourth letters arranged? 8. What is the correct pronunciation of the following:inquiry, address, alhes, acchmated, apparatus, parochial,architect, ordeal, illustrate, accent, magazine, government,recess, municipal, conduit, and oleomargarine? Q. Which of the following words are written as one wordwith a hyphen, which are written as a compound wordwithout a hyphen, and which are written as two separatewords: post office, post master, air ship, base ball, bas

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