Arranging Words in Alphabetical Order | Link English Class 11

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Putting Words in Alphabetical Order
Class: 11

In dictionaries words are listed according to their first letter. When you are looking for the word 'abacus', you have to start from ‘a’ at the top of page of the dictionary. Then you have to turn over the page having ‘a b’, then’ 'a b a', 'a b a c', abacus respectively. This is called alphabetical order.

Example:

assize, assist, ass, assign, associate, assimilate, assign, assume, assure, assonance, assault, assert, asset, aside, assonance, asteroid, astride , assess, aspire, aspect

Here, letters ‘as’ are common in all words. So, when you are arranging in alphabetical order look third letter that is after ‘as’ here is the letter that comes first, then p, s, ……………etc. In this way;

The correct order is:

aside, aspect, aspire, ass, assault, assert, assess, asset assign, assimilate, assist, assize, associate, assort, assume, assure, asteroid , astray, astride.

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