The Alphabet
In English Alphabet there are twenty six letters.
A letter is the smallest unit of language. It can be written in two ways :
Capital Letters
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Small Letters
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
We can write 'apple' not 'ppela', because the proper spelling of this fruit is 'apple'.
Alphabet is an order of letters from a to z. This order is called alphabetical order.
A dictionary is a book which gives the meaning of words. The words in the dictionary follow the alphabetical order.
Alphabetical Order
Five of the letters - a, e, i, o, u are vowels.
And rest 21 letters are consonants.
With the help of these vowels and consonants we make the words. A word is a group of letters that gives some meaning; examples : go, do, take, orange, etc.
- When words are arranged in alphabetical order, they are arranged in the same order as the letters of the alphabet.
- To arrange words in alphabetical order, we look at the first letter of the words.
Wrong spelling can change the meaning or be a wrong word.
Look at these words :
These words will appear in alphabetical order as -
- If the first letters of all the words are the same, we will look at the second letters of the words.
Let us look at some more words :
These words will appear in alphabetical order as -