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Helen Keller said her first word at her family's home in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, who taught her the sign language for the word "water" while Helen was feeling water flowing over her hand.
Anne Sullivan tried to teach Helen the word water.
Yes, it was, but after she understand the sense of finger alphabet.
Helen Keller's first sign language word was "water," which she learned to sign after connecting the sensation of water flowing over her hand to the fingerspelled word "water" that her teacher, Anne Sullivan, imprinted on her other hand.
The first word she spelled on Sullivan's hand was doll she did that because when Annie first came she had a doll and she would not give the doll to her unless she spelled the word Doll which she did when she got the hang of it
april 5, 1887
The word understand is a verb. The past tense is understood.
water was the first word that she learned and that helped her understand the world around her
If it is the terminal to a letter/epistle/written communication , then it is written as 'Yours truly, ' Note the capital 'Y' and the comma, after 'truly'. The reason for the comma is because you have not quite completed the statement, e.g. ' Yours truly, Joe Smith. ' There is a full stop/period after 'Smith' to indicate termination of the statement.
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at least the popular idea is that Miss Keller- following her blindness and deafness was first moved to sound out the word- Water- after an incident at an outdoor Pump house by her teacher, Annie Sullivan. It should be carefully noted that Miss Keller was not congenitally blind, but became handicapped as a side-effect of Scarlet Fever, at least that is the gist of articles digested in Grammar School.
hellen Keller said a lot of important things. when she was blind and deaf, the first word she said starting to recover, was "wah wah", which means water.