English spelling for EFL students / Paula López Ru a.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López Ru a, Paula.

Series:

Manuais universitarios. ; 13.

Manuais universitarios ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language.

Lengua inglesa.

English language--Grammar.

Lengua inglesa--Gramática.

Local Subjects:

Lengua inglesa.

Lengua inglesa--Gramática.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Place of Publication:

Santiago de Compostela : Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This manual provides both intermediate and advanced level students of English as a Foreign Language with further knowledge and practice so as to make them improve their spelling skills. The book is divided into six chapters, and its contents are based on the analysis of a corpus of spelling errors spotted in exams, essays and exercises done by Spanish university students. The manual can be used for self-study, since it also includes an answer key at the back, where students can check the correct or suggested answers to all the exercises.

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

Notes:

Contiene índice.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 09, 2015).

ISBN:

84-9887-667-2

OCLC:

923030021