Word Savvy Handbook: Use the Right Word by Ragno Nancy

Author:Ragno, Nancy [Ragno, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Baneberry Books
Published: 2020-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

LEAD ... LED

Examples from Quotes

Do not go where the path may lead ; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others.

— Michael Straczynski

A great nation is not led by a man who simply repeats the talk of the street-corners or the opinions of the newspapers. — Woodrow Wilson

Dictionary Definitions

lead v. To guide the way by going in advance. n. 1. A heavy, soft metal (rhymes with dead.) 2. A foremost position. 3. Material of possible use in a search.

Adele will lead the way to the cave.

My joke went over like a lead balloon.

An anonymous tip provided the detective with the lead she sought.

led v. Past tense and past particle of the verb "to lead ."

The tracks led from the cave to the river.

usage note : The verb led (past tense) is often misspelled l-e-a-d because it is pronounced like its homonym lead that rhymes with Ted .

Memory Tricks

Think : "Read and you will take the lead .”

Rhyme: Think, "Ned led Ed, Ted, and Fred.

Connect: lead → lead er

Spelling: Both lead (rhymes with bead ) and led follow spelling rules for vowel sounds. In lead , the vowel sound is long-e (lead rhymes with bead ). Led has the short-e sound. (Led rhymes with bed.)

Rules : When two vowels come together, the first is long, the second is silent ("the first does the talking, the second does the walking”): e.g., lead .

When a vowel comes between two consonants, the vowel is short: e.g., led .

Try It

Choose lead or led. for each p.

(Answers follow.)

1. We need someone who will take the p and p us back to the cabin.

2. If we had not been p astray by moose tracks, we would be there by now.

3. Who’s playing the male p in the drama?

4. p them to the nearest exit.

5. Which is the path that will p us to the cave?

6 . What are the symptoms of p poisoning?

7. If we follow the river, it will p us to the sea.

8. We need to find a new p singer tonight because Rocque has laryngitis.

9. The value of that stock turned out to be less than we were p to believe.

10. That one unfortunate mistake p to the general’s defeat.

11. Who will p the team to victory?

12 . Myles was chosen to p the investigation into the mysterious death of Styles. In his capacity as Inspector, he had p many investigations in the past. Did the p pipe lying near the body p him to suspect that Styles' death was no accident? Was it the dagger under the sofa? No, neither would have p Myles to pronounce that it was death by poisoning. Rather, it was the faint smell of almonds in Styles' overturned glass that was the p Myles needed. It p him to suspect cyanide as the agent of death.

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