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Simple Nouns
Simple nouns are words for persons, places, or things. For instance, a highway is a thing. You can see and feel a highway. A bottle is also a thing you can see and hold. Other nouns which name objects that you can see and feel are: desk, chair, tree, house, book, pencil, sandwich, and camera.
Here are some sentences containing nouns from the list for this unit.
The bottle fell and broke. The well was deep. There is a spring by the mountain. I drove down that road.
Syllables
A syllable is a part of a word that is made up of one vowel sound. The word sound is in bold because sometimes two or more vowels work together to create a single vowel sound. For instance, the word syllable has three syllables (syl-la-ble).
Here are some words from the list divided into syllables:
im-press pre-sent pre-tend wet-ness sup-ply li-quid un-der-ground a-qui-fer bot-tle plumb-ing coun-ty mi-ning lone-ly high-way