Every sound is always spelled by the same letter. Every letter has only one sound. The English letter "c" is not needed because it has the sound either of "k" or "s"; so I use "c" for the short sound of "a," as in "hat." The English letter "q" is not needed because it has the same sound as "k"; so I use "q" for the short sound of "u," as in "up." The English letter "x" is not needed because it has the same sound as "ks"; so I use "x" for the short sound of "e," as in "let." Long "a," as in "hate," and long "i," as in "right," are compound sounds, and I spell them as such to save inventing new letters for them. I use two different forms of "a." Capital, printed "A" is the sound of "a" in "all." Phonetic "" is the sound of "a" in "father" and of "o" in "not." Because there are twenty-eight sounds in "American Speech" and only twenty-six letters in English, I needed one more letter. I use "o" with a mark thru it for the sound of "oo" in "book." This plan leaves "o" for the long sound of "o," as in "no," "u" for the sound of "u" in "rule," and "i" for the short sound of "i," as in "it." See page tu for American sounds and English equivalents.
Tle plural of all nouns and pronouns is tregular. The plural of "man" is "mans." In some cases I use a verb form for both verb and noun, as the English word "love" is both a verb and a noun. "Speak" becomes a noun in place of "speech." The comparison of all adjectives and adverbs is regular, as "good, gooder, goodest." In Englisg the most common ending used to form an adjective from a noun is the short sound of "i," as in "sun, sunny," "noise, noisy," "cloud, cloudy," "dust, dusty." I have extended this rule to some other words. "Grammatical" becomes "grammari." "American" becomes "Americai."
All forms of all verbs are regular. The present tense of the verb "to be" is "I be, you be, he be, Is be, yous be, hes be." I have dropped many Latin verb endings, the meanings of which have been dropped long ago, as "at," "ate," "et," "it," "ant," "ent," "ance," "ence," "ion," "tion," etc. "Regulate" becomes "regul." "Composition" becomes "compos."
Under "Stems" I have respelled and defined for identification all common English words that can be put into groups under the same root or stem. Other common English words have been respelled and defined under their respective parts of speech.
The second division of this book on grammar is a complete grammar, giving and explaining all the grammatical constructions of the eight parts of speech, and of phrases, clauses, and sentences. The preface only is in English. The book itself is in simplified spelling.
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