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 CLEAR . Type in astute. Press ENTER . 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:

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 ENTER . The word “SYNONYMS” is now highlighted. Use the arrow keys

until “sharp” is highlighted. Press ENTER , then press . The thesaurus information 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.”

You 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 GRAMMAR — from a dictionary entry, from the thesaurus, or from the typing screen. To see the complete list of Grammar topics, press CLEAR and then press GRAMMAR . You will see:

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 ENTER .

Or, simply start at the top with the “Parts of Speech” chapter and read straight through, pressing FWD for each new chapter.

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 GRAMMAR . You will immediately see the Grammar 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 GRAMMAR , you will see three topics from which to choose:

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 GRAMMAR , 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

GRAMMAR .

If a word is not a special grammatical term like “superlative”, but just an ordinary word like “albatross” or “relieve”, then pressing GRAMMAR while such a word is selected 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 ENTER to highlight words in the Grammar Guide, move the cursor to the word you want using the arrow keys, then press ENTER .

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 GAMES while viewing the grammar information to see the exercises.

SPEECH

Speech is a powerful teaching tool with the LM-6000. You 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 SAY . In a short while, the word is pronounced and the screen below appears:

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