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Answer the questions.
Most dictionaries will tell you a number of
things about a language. There are three important things. These three things
are spelling, pronunciation and meanings.
First, a dictionary will tell you the
spelling of a word. If you are not sure about the spelling of a word, you can
try to find the correct spelling in a dictionary. Words are listed in
alphabetical order—a, b, c and so on. For
example, on a dictionary page the word "poor"(p, o, o, r) comes
before "poverty"(p, o，v, e, r, t, y) and the
word "poverty" comes before the word "power"(p, o, w, e,
r).
The second thing, a dictionary will tell
you pronunciation. Most dictionaries give phonetic alphabets. The phonetic
alphabet will tell you how a word is pronounced. There are a few different
phonetic alphabets. Many dictionaries use the international phonetic alphabet
to show pronunciation.
The third thing, a dictionary will tell you
the meanings of the words. You can look up a word and find out what it means.
Many words have more than one meaning, and a good dictionary will tell you all
of the word's meanings. For example, in English the common word "get"
has over 20 different meanings.
