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RymeZone


John Simkin

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Students can use Ryme Zone to help write poetry and song lyrics. To use RhymeZone, type a word into the search box, select a function in the dropdown list next to the box, and then hit "Go get it!" to view the results. Here are the different functions that you can select from that dropdown list: Rhymes: (words that rhyme with the word you typed in); Synonyms (words that are the same or similar in meaning to the word you typed in). Also included are Anonyms, Definitions and Homophones.

http://www.rhymezone.com/

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that site has a great many uses,

it is, for example, very revealling about syntax and a good way of building grammaskills, especailly good for ppl studying the history of language ...

start by locating the Shakespeare bit, and where it opens with an option to

You can also browse Shakespeare's lines incrementally:

you can start to sentence building,

Ask the students to GUESS what the next group of words will be before you click on your option, say starting with "the" you would predict nouns as the main word class to follow...

when you click "the" the page present you with all the main options leading on from quotations. In this case you DO see mostly nouns, but click an "odd" one - in this case "like" is offered and you find yourself with this sentence

"The like of him" which seems interesting to me!

then you can discuss how else the word

"The like ... " might continue

e.g "the like do you: so shall we pass" and you can locate them in their context in the play if the meaning seems elusive!

brilliant!

Edited by susanwilde
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