What do you mean specific?
What do you mean specific?
: special or particular. : clearly and exactly presented or stated : precise or exact. : relating to a particular person, situation, etc.
How do you use specific in a sentence?
1, Mr Howarth gave us very specific instructions. 2, Be more specific about what you want to do. 3, There was no specific plan in my mind. 4, The regional editions of the paper contain specific information for that area.
What is the noun of specific?
specific. A distinguishing attribute or quality. A specific remedy. Specification.
What can I say instead of specific?
What is another word for specific?
distinct | specified |
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certain | definite |
precise | express |
set | explicit |
single | clear |
Why can’t I say specific?
Originally Answered: Why is it hard to say the word specific? because it has the stative verb prefix ‘s-‘ slapped onto the triliteral PKW plus the suffix ‘-ic’. in general, the stative prefix causes issues for people as far as pronunciation goes.
Why do some people struggle with pronunciation?
Usually, a nerve or brain disorder has made it difficult to control the tongue, lips, larynx, or vocal cords, which make speech. Dysarthria, which is difficulty pronouncing words, is sometimes confused with aphasia, which is difficulty producing language. They have different causes.
What words do people have trouble pronouncing?
Here are the top 30 words Americans struggle to pronounce
- affidavit [af-i-dey-vit]
- almond [ah-muh nd, am-uh nd]
- beget [bih-get]
- cache [kash]
- caramel [kar-uh-muh l, -mel, kahr-muh l]
- coupon [koo-pon, kyoo-]
- croissant [French krwah-sahn; English kruh-sahnt]
- epitome [ih-pit-uh-mee]
What is a tricky phrase?
What are tricky words? Tricky words are those words which cannot be sounded out easily. Emergent readers may find them difficult to read as they have not yet learned some of the Graphemes in those words.
Is was a tricky word?
For example, in the word ‘was’: the ‘a’ sounds /o/ and the ‘s’ sounds /z/. Beginner readers may find it difficult to decode using the limited phonic knowledge they have learned. So this is a ‘tricky word’. They used to be called ‘sight words’ but this term is no longer used in synthetic phonics.
How do you practice tricky words?
Play memory games such as Snap, Concentration, Bingo or Go Fish with tricky words on cards. Hangman is a particularly effective game for letter sequence recall in tricky words. Double print our tricky word cards: Playing with Sounds words or Letters and Sounds words.
What phonics should be taught in Year 1?
By the end of Year 1, children should be able to: Say the sound for any grapheme they are shown. Write the common graphemes for any given sound (e.g. ‘e,’ ‘ee,’ ‘ie,’ ‘ea’) Use their phonics knowledge to read and spell unfamiliar words of up to three syllables.
What order should I teach phonics?
As we stated on our Keys to Success page, phonics instruction must be systematic and sequential. In other words, letters and sounds are taught first. Then letters are combined to make words and finally words are used to construct sentences.