English spelling for EFL students
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Santiago de Compostela :
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
[2011]
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| Series: | Manuais universitarios. ;
13. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431335806719 |
Table of Contents:
- ENGLISH SPELLING; LEGAL PAGE; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; 1. THE BASICS OF SPELLING; Capital letters; Exercises: (answers on page 115); Plurals; Exercises: (answers on page 116); Third-person singular ; Exercises: (answers on page 117); The simple past; Exercises: (answers on page 118); forms; Exercises: (answers on page 119); Comparative and superlative of adjectives: and ; Exercises: (answers on page 121); The apostrophe (); Exercises: see Chapter 6 ('Passages for error correction') on page 106.; Possessive ; Exercises: (answers on page 122)
- 2. COMMON SPELLING PROBLEMSDoubling word-final consonants; Exercises: (answers on page 122); Dropping final silent ; Exercises: (answers on page 123); Changing to ; Exercises: (answers on page 124); Dropping the in word-final and ; Exercises: (answers on page 125); Dealing with confusable clusters: and , and , and ; Exercises: (answers on page 125); Using hyphens; Exercises: (answers on page 126); Spelling compounds; Abbreviating items; 3. SPELLING AND MORPHOLOGY; Spelling troublesome affixes; Troublesome prefixes; Troublesome suffixes
- 4. SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATIONBasic devices of English spelling; Exercises (answers on page 132); Silent letters; Exercises (answers on page 132); Spelling patterns for irregular verbs; Spelling and pronunciation of some word endings: , , , ; Exercises: (answers on page 134); Homographs, homophones and homonyms; Exercises: (answers on page 135); Variant spellings: blond - blonde; 5. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH: BrE and AmE; Differences of spelling in British and American English; BrE /AmE ; BrE /AmE ; Word-final / ; BrE / AmE
- The ligatures and Word-final ; Further orthographic differences; Punctuation; Exercises (answers on page 136); 6. FURTHER PRACTICE; Miscellaneous exercises (answers on page 137 ff.); Spelling tests (answers on page 157); Passages for error correction (answers on page 160); Key to Exercises; Electronic Resources: More Exercises and Games; References; Acknowledgements
