Franklin LM-6000 User Manual
ADVANCED THESAURUS FEATURES
The thesaurus in your Language Master offers meaning statements, synonyms,
antonyms and compares. The meaning statements precede the other information
and help you choose the correct set of synonyms, antonyms, etc.
The Language Master includes “antonyms” and “compares” in its thesaurus information. Antonyms are words which mean the opposite of the word you looked up.
Compares are words which are close in meaning to the word you looked up, but
not close enough to be a synonym. Use a compare when you’re looking for a word
that approximates the one you looked up. Use a synonym when you want a word
exactly like the one you looked up.
Press . Type in
CLEAR
astute. Press . The dictionary information for
“astute” appears. Press . Your screen now looks like the one below:
Use the down arrow key until the screen below appears:
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Notice the antonym and compares on the screen above.
Let’s look at the example below to see what the number next to a compare means.
Press . The word “SYNONYMS” is now highlighted. Use the arrow keys
until “sharp” is highlighted. Press , then press . The thesaurus infor-
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mation for “sharp” now appears. Press the “FWD” key. You are now viewing the
second thesaurus entry for the word “sharp” which is a compare for the word “astute.”
Y ou may also use the “pick” method of looking up a word to see information about
a word’s antonym.
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GRAMMAR GUIDE
The LM-6000 comes equipped with a complete Grammar Guide. You can access
the Grammar information at any time by pressing — from a dictionary
entry, from the thesaurus, or from the typing screen. To see the complete list of
Grammar topics, press and then press . You will see:
CLEAR
You can now move the highlight down through this table of contents using either
or Shift- . When you see a topic you’d like to read about, press .
Or, simply start at the top with the “Parts of Speech” chapter and read straight
through, pressing for each new chapter.
FWD
But there’s another way. The Grammar Guide has been electronically indexed to
respond with the precise passage or passages relevant to your particular question.
For instance, suppose you are interested transitive verbs. Type “transitive” at the
“Type in the word” screen and press . You will immediately see the Gram-
GRAMMAR
mar Guide section on transitive verbs. If more than one section is relevant to your
query , you will see a menu of the relevant sections. For instance, if you type “possessive” and press , you will see three topics from which to choose:
GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR
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The Grammar Guide will accept as a query any word or phrase that is in the LM6000 dictionary . Therefore, you could type “direct object” and press , be-
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cause the phrase “direct object” has its own entry in the dictionary . But you couldn’t
type “transitive verb” or “verb that takes an object after it”, because these phrases
are not separately defined in this dictionary.
You can even use the Grammar Guide to get information about the punctuation
marks on the keyboard. For example, you may wish to know how to use the “;”
(semicolon). You don’t even need to know the name of it — just type it and press
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If a word is not a special grammatical term like “superlative”, but just an ordinary
word like “albatross” or “relieve”, then pressing while such a word is se-
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lected will bring up just the chapters relevant to that word’s part of speech. If you
see a word in the Grammar Guide itself that you would like to look up in the dictionary , press to highlight words in the Grammar Guide, move the cursor to
the word you want using the arrow keys, then press .
ENTER
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Grammar Quiz
Some sections of the Grammar Guide have Quiz Exercises to help you sharpen
your grammar skills. A message at the end of the section tells you when these are
available.
Press while viewing the grammar information to see the exercises.
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SPEECH
Speech is a powerful teaching tool with the LM-6000. Y ou may actually listen to the
word you are viewing.
The Language Master has a Dynamic Pronunciation Guide (DPG) which will pronounce the individual sounds of the word you listened to. To make the learning experience even more complete, examples of a sound’s usage are shown on the
screen.
Type the word
yachting. Press . In a short while, the word is pro-
nounced and the screen below appears:
SAY
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