Sunday, January 29, 2023

Alphabet and Words

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 :

  • ball
  • doll
  • ant
  • chair

These words will appear in alphabetical order as -

  • ant
  • ball
  • chair
  • doll
  • 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 :

  • pen
  • pin
  • paint
  • plan

These words will appear in alphabetical order as -

  • paint
  • pen
  • pin
  • plan

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