A lively and practical guide to making spelling easy, this book will help you improve your spelling skills as well as understand the reasons for your spelling problems and how to deal with them. In two sections-one giving step-by-step guidance on how to help yourself, and the other a quick reference section-it is user-friendly and designed to make an often-forbidding subject readable. Illustrated: cartoons, boxes, 'dos' and 'don'ts', easy to follow sections Practical: how to work out spelling patterns, how words change because of grammar, double and single letters (eg disappoint, accommodation), words of foreign origin, using a dictionary effectively, using a spell-checker, and more Problem solving: knowing your spelling 'weaknesses', coping with confusables, debunking spelling myths, British and American English differences, capitalization Wordlists: boxes of confused spellings, as well as lists of word endings (eg -able or -ible, -acy or -asy) and noun and verb spellings, proper nouns, silent consonants.
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Robert Allen is an experienced lexicographer and a writer on a wide range of language issues. A former Senior Editor of The Oxford English Dictionary, Chief Editor of The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1990), an Associate Editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992), and the Editor of Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (1999), he has written on the use of English in modern times. He now works as a freelance writer and editor, and he has written two titles that form part of Oxford's new Get Ahead In series. John Seely, the series editor of the Get Ahead In series, is an experienced author and teacher of English who has worked in education at all levels from primary school to university. His publications include The Oxford English Programme, The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking, and Everyday Grammar (OPR).
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