Improve_Your_Written_English
punctuation mark would be a comma and the following speech would start with a small letter instead of a capital letter. Look at ...
Avoiding confusion If a quotation or a title is used by someone who is speaking, use double inverted commasfor the quotations to ...
Indirect speech: She said that she wanted to go to the town. Notice that in both cases the conjunction ‘that’ has been used. In ...
◆ Each paragraph should have a topic sentence whose content is expanded in the rest of the paragraph. ◆ Short paragraphs may be ...
‘But there’s the food to order, the wedding cake to make and the dresses to buy.’ She started to clear the table. Brian moved to ...
Checking Your Spelling Establishing the ground rules English spelling is not easy to learn. Therearesome rules but often there a ...
Changing ‘y’ to ‘i’ If a noun ends in ‘y’, and there is a consonant before it, a plural is formed by changing the ‘y’ into an ‘i ...
brush – brushes buzz – buzzes church – churches duchess – duchesses fox – foxes Changing the form of a verb When averbends in ‘y ...
If there is no ‘e’ at the end of a word, the vowel is usually ‘short’: bit, hop, let If a second syllable is added to these word ...
‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ This rule seems to have been made to be broken. Some words keep to it but others break it. Here ...
doubt eerie eight eighth embarrass empty encyclopaedia envelope exaggerate exceed except exercise excitement exhaust exhibition ...
Looking at homophones Some words that are pronounced in the same way are spelt differently and have different meanings. They are ...
idle lazy idol object of worship know to have knowledge no opposite of yes passed past tense of ‘pass’ past time gone by to pass ...
to in direction of too as well or excessively two the number vain conceited vein vessel in body for carrying blood vane weatherc ...
‘Wear’ is the present tense of the verb ‘to wear’: The Chelsea Pensionerswear their uniform with pride. ‘Whose’ or ‘who’s’ ‘Whos ...
refuse rubbish refuse to show obstinacy (noun) (verb) row a line or an argument row to argue angrily (noun) (verb) to propel a b ...
Identifying letters Letters after the word identify the part of speech: n. = noun a. = adjective adv. = adverb v. = verb The ver ...
Making use of the thesaurus Athesauruscan also be very useful. It will help you to find an alternative word (synonym) for a word ...
Revising the points ◆ Double the consonant after a short vowel sound when adding more letters. ◆ Learn commonly misspelt words. ...
(i) Because of the wind, the bow of the tree broke. (j) She past threw the crowd. (k) He through the ball. (l) Know milk was lef ...
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