Synopses & Reviews
Even with modern computer spell checking, it's important for everybody to know how to spell words correctly. This book is designed to help students, businesspeople, and everybody else master the art of spelling. It examines reasons why we misspell, offers tips for improvement, presents basic spelling rules, suggests memory devices, and advises on acquiring the habit of using a good dictionary. Also included are lists of homonyms and homophones and frequently misspelled words. Hundreds of quick-check exercises are designed to improve every reader's spelling. Barron's E-Z Series books are updated, and re-formatted editions of Barron's older and perennially popular Easy Way books. Titles in the new E-Z Series feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever. All are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide variety of practical and academic subjects, written on levels that range from senior high school to college-101 standards.
Synopsis
"Prior editions under the title Spelling the Easy Way."
Synopsis
(back cover)
Learning to spell correctly makes sense when you approach it the E-Z way! Open this book for a clear, concise, step-by-step review of:
Spelling Rules and Exceptions Memory Devices for Accurate Spelling Lists of Frequently Misspelled Words Homonyms and Homophones Advice for Using Spell-check Programs Much More
Measure your progress as you learn to improve your spelling:
Read the rules, tips, and techniques provided Build your skills with exercises along the way And discover that learning to spell accurately can be E-Z!
Table of Contents
Introduction
Pretest
THE IMPORTANCE OF SPELLING
1 Why Learn to Spell?
2 Why Is Spelling So Difficult?
3 Learning Techniques
4 Mnemonics
RULES FOR SPELLING
5 Better Spelling by Ear
6 Some Special Problems
7 Prefixes
8 Confusing Suffixes
9 Plural Nouns
10 The Final -Y
11 The Final -E
12 Doubling Final Consonants
13 English as a Second Language
SPECIAL DEVICES
14 The Hyphen
15 The Apostrophe
16 Capital Letters
17 Spelling Abbreviations
TROUBLESOME WORDS
18 More Homonyms and Homophones
and Other Confusing Word Pairs
19 Word Building
20 Most Frequently Misspelled Words
21 Computer Terms
22 More Commonly Misspelled Words
23 Medical and Health Terms
MEASURING YOUR PROGRESS
24 Achievement Tests
25 Answer Key
26 10,000 Word Ready Reference
Spelling List