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 § 139. Notice the position of the words— , the other country. , the whole country.

§ 140.

§ 141. Una and Nora are going with you to Kildare. Do not stand on the floor, stand at the door. I am going to another country—good-bye. Conn and another man are on the road. Conn is not big; Art is big. Una is white-haired, Conn is brown-haired. The ship is beautiful, she is high and long. The fire is hot. There is water in the well.

§ 142. The digraphs when obscure.

In simple words of two syllables (that is, words not formed from others by adding a termination) the first syllable is the one accented, as we have seen already; as (kop′-ăL), a horse. The vowel sound of the last syllable is then usually obscure (compare the sound of ai in Britain), as we have already seen, and this is true when that vowel sound is represented by any of the digraphs given in § 132.