Goof-proof spelling
By: Felice Primeau Devine.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: LearningExpress
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Problems, exercises, etc.; Spellers.
Table of contents: title: Word parts; title: Roots; title: Prefixes; title: Suffixes; title: Syllables; title: Homophones; title: Learn the goof-proof rules; title: Use mnemonics; title: Sound words out; title: Think about meaning; title: Use flash cards; title: Visit helpful spelling and vocabulary websites; title: When to use IE and EI; title: When to use IA and AI; title: Overwhelming vowel combinations; title: Doubling final consonants; title: Sneaky silent consonants; title: The hard and soft sides of the letter C; title: "G" whiz! G can be soft or hard, too!; title: Regular plurals, when to just add -s and when to add -es; title: Pesky plurals; title: The funky F; title: making words plural when they end in F or Fe; title: When to drop a final E; title: When to keep a final y, when to change it to I; title: Adding endings to words that end with a C; title: Apostrophes, the attraction of contractions; title: Apostrophes, the politics of possessives; title: Abbreviations; title: Heavy-handed with hyphens; title: Creating compound words, adding a word to a word; title: Past tense; title: Commonly confused words; title: Mon Dieu! foreign language words buck all the rules!; title: Learning legal terms; title: Bumbling over business terms; title: Tripping over technology terms; title: Literary terms, not just for English 101!