FREE GRAMMAR LESSONS

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FREE GRAMMAR LESSONS FROM NAVEED IQBAL'S BOOK
"A COMPLETE BOOK OF GRAMMAR" (Published internationally
and released on CDs too)

(LESSON FOR THIS WEEK)
SPELLINGS

We form a word by writing or naming the letters in the correct order. So ‘spelling is the act of spelling words correctly’.
In English, there is no simple relationship between speech sounds and their graphic representation, a single sound may be written in a number of different ways. For example, the homonyms ‘to’, ‘too’, and ‘two’ have differing syntactic and semantic functions; ‘night’ and ‘knight’ are both nouns, but mean different things. So the spelling of English, so far as its relation to the spoken word is concerned, is “quite crazy”.
Everyone who has difficulty with spelling words correctly can derive some comfort from knowing that some very good writers have been notoriously bad spellers. It's also comforting to bad spellers to know that this business of spelling seems to have little to do with intelligence. It has more to do with how we remember things.
Some people, once they've seen a word spelled correctly, will never misspell that word again. Those are the people who, if you ask them how to spell a word, will first say, "Wait a second. Let me write it down." If you are not a strong visual learner, but learn in other ways, you will have to learn some other tricks to become a strong speller.

We can improve our spellings by:

· Reading intelligently.
· Referring to a good dictionary.
· Memorising strategies, relying sometimes on ‘memory
phrases’ and sentences to help fix spellings in our mind.
· Writing in notebook words frequently mis-spelt.
· developing an interest in words
· feeling safe about trying new words
· learning about
* the way words are built up using syllables
*basic spelling patterns of English
* the meanings of words
* prefixes and suffixes

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