Learn These Words First (6E)
6-17. sound, sounds, to sound, sounding, sounded.
[X is a sound.] = X is what someone can hear. X moves through air and you cannot see it.
[Before I saw the machine, I could hear the sounds it made.]
[J sounds like K.] = When you hear J, you think what you hear is like K.
[These two words sound the same.]
6-18. loud.
[X is a loud sound.] = X is very much sound, like when something here makes a sound and someone far from here can hear it.
[The animal made a loud sound when it wanted food.]
6-19. high.
[X is high.] = X is above and far from the ground.
[The top part of this big plant is high above me.]
[X is a high sound.] = You expect something more long and something less long to make different sounds. X is the kind of sound you expect to hear from things that are less long.
[The small animal made a loud high sound.]
[J is higher than K.] = J is high more than K.
6-20. low.
[X is low.] = X is near the ground.
[Some animals ate the low parts of this plant.]
[X is a low sound.] = You expect something more long and something less long to make different sounds. X is the kind of sound you expect to hear from things that are more long.
[The big animal made a loud low sound.]
[J is lower than K.] = J is more low than K.
There are two animals near this building. One is low, and the other is high.
The animal that is high above the building __________.