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Lesson 23 Words ending with cious, cial, or cian


suspicious financial physician
delicious artificial politician
vicious special magician
precious racial musician
unconscious commercial pediatrician
gracious social electrician

1. In the word list above, the last syllable of each word is underlined. Write the last syllable in each group of words.
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2. What are the first two letters of each of these syllables? __________

3. When the letter c is followed by an i, it has soft sound. Say each word. Does the last syllable begin with a hard sound or a soft sound? __________

Lesson Generalization

The letters ci spell the /sh/ sound in the syllables cious, cial, and cian.

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