Lessons on Frequent Spelling Mistakes

**طواش** · 08-14-2008, 08:00 PM

We English Supervisors announce opening this subject to address a serious problem many speakers of English language as a second language face in writing, spelling

Spelling mistakes are not to be taken lightly, because it could cause learners many marks in their schools, colleges and universities

The good Glory inspired us to open this 'fixed' subject, which we hope will help all members frequenting the English Forum

We will address the many frequent mistakes learners make in spelling

We would also like to note that everyone well versed in English is welcome to contribute in this subject

**طواش** · 08-15-2008, 04:14 PM

Lesson 1: Countables and Uncountables

Beginners don't realize that nouns have
two forms, Countables and Uncountables

A Countable Noun means a noun that refers to something you could count; things you count you could count are those which have a single entity and not joined by a mass of the same thing

Examples of Countable Nouns include Table, Chair, Bottle; these things are single and separate from other things

On the other hand, an Uncountable Noun refers to something you cannot count, because it's not a single thing, but a group of things joined together to form a mass

Examples of Uncountable Nouns include Water, Blood, Air; these things are not a single thing, but a group of things joined together, not separate

It's important to differentiate between Countables and Uncountables, because while you could use both to refer to singular and plural nouns in speaking, you cannot do the same when writing

In written speech, you differentiate between a singular noun and a plural noun by adding an 's' at the end of the noun. Countables could use 's' at the end to change it into the plural form, such as Tables, Chairs, Bottles

On the other hand, Uncountables don't need an 's' at the end to change it into the plural form, which means that you can still write Water, Blood, Air, Equipment to refer to the plural form in written speech

As a result, adding an 's' at the end of Uncountables to make them plural is a frequent 'spelling mistake' that beginners often make

Hopefully, my explanation covers the overall matter of spelling mistakes related to Countables and Uncountables; you could learn the list of Countables and Uncountables from dictionaries, and probably websites. Also, you could learn them from your everyday pursuit to master the English language

**BrAv3_h3ArT** · 08-15-2008, 04:33 PM

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرِّحِيْم

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Hey brother TAWASH

Great topic as always

It is very important for beginners to figure out the spelling

May someone fail the exam because of spelling mistakes

So, should be aware about it

Thanks brother

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زعيمة بوظبي · 08-15-2008, 04:35 PM

What a good post
emmm I think the problem is not her cause all of us know these things
The problem is that we don't have a big vocab list, I mean we the school students cause in our books we have only those silly words which we known

waiting for your new post
I hope u enjoy my passing
AL ZA3IMA
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**طواش** · 08-16-2008, 02:13 AM

اقتباس:

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة زعيمة بوظبي

What a good load
emmm i think the problem is not her cause all of us know this things
the problen that we dont have a big vocab list i mean us the school students cause in our books we have only those selly words whaich is known

waiting for your new load
i hope u enjoy my passing
AL ZA3IMA
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You are right indeed sister

Welcome to the English Forum, and we Supervisors surely enjoyed your passing

But since we are addressing 'spelling mistakes', allow me to correct the mistakes you made in your passing

You could check them by comparing between your original post and the quoted version in my reply; the corrected words in your original post are in red

Await the coming lessons on spelling mistakes

Regards

**طواش** · 08-16-2008, 11:02 AM

Lesson 2: Splitting Compounds

Now many beginners easily make mistakes with Compounds. A Compound is a word that combines two or sometimes more different words. Often, the meaning of the Compound cannot be discovered by knowing the meaning of the different words that form it. In other words, a compound is two words joined together from two original words; those two words would mean something when they are separate, but might mean something entirely different when joined together into a Compound

For example, the word 'every' means all, and 'one' refers to a single thing. When we join both words together we get the Compound 'Everyone', which means every person

Compounds could be made using two original words, such as Firefighter, Furthermore, Bodyguard, Evermore. Compounds could also be made using three original words, such as Nonetheless (None, The, Less), Whatsoever (What, So, Ever) and other examples I can't remember now

To conclude, a Compound is a single word even if it was made using three original words. Thus, it's considered a spelling mistake to 'split' compounds into their original forms. So, writing 'body guard' instead of 'bodyguard' is a common spelling mistake beginners make

Many dictionaries provide a list of compounds, but you could learn them in your everyday pursuit of mastery over English

Below is further explanation of the second lesson

ذروة المجد · 08-16-2008, 04:51 PM

[size="4"][i]ASSALAMOU 3ALAYKUM WA RAHMATULLAH WA BARAKATU

May Allah's blessing and peace bestow upon you

Some word are well known to be one word of two original words ((COMPOUND))

everybody
everyone
someone
somehow
somewhere
something

weekend
weekday

braodcast
broadmind
website

whoever
whenever
wherever
whatever

these words are not to be written splitted

Examples of how the splitting changes the meaning

if you write ((every one))..... this means each ....... and 1
but ((everyone)) means all people

if you write ((everywhere)) ........... it means all over the place or area

but ((every where)) ............... ((every)) means all - ((where)) here has another definition of meaning
though; the meaning changes if we split the compound word

beautiful ........................ it is a compound word of beauti ((beauty)) and ful ((full))
together they give the meaning of something very nice ...

so now I want every person passing by this explanation to train themselves on those words .......................................

good luck ................ see u soon with our next lesson

**طواش** · 08-17-2008, 06:28 PM

Lesson 3: Verb Disagreement...A

Let's talk more about verb when we address this type of spelling mistakes, we will first address one type of spelling mistakes resulting from verb disagreement

We know that a verbal sentence, one which has a verb, has to meet an agreement rule to be grammatically correct. There are three cases of the verbal sentence: past, present and future (In Arabic, it's past, present and order), remember

Now let's take me for instance with my lessons. When we want to describe my activity in the past, we would say: Tawash 'wrote' the third spelling mistakes lesson today

If we want to describe my activity in the present, we would say: Tawash 'writes' spelling mistakes everyday

If we want to describe my activity tomorrow, we would say: Tawash 'will write' the fourth lesson tomorrow

Now you can see that we have three forms of activities, the past, present and the future. Notice that the 'verb' in all three forms is different, it's because every form describes a different time sequence

In short, writing the 'verb' in its 'correct form' according to the 'time sequence' of the context is called Verb Agreement. Thus, if you don't write the verb with accordance to the correct time sequence, not only you make a grammatical mistake, but also a spelling mistake. It means you lose two types of marks in such 'fatal' mistakes, grammar and spelling

If you pay attention to the text of this lesson closely, you will notice that all verbs agree with their time sequences, thus have correct spelling

To conclude, it's very important to pay attention to the time sequence in the verbal sentence in order to avoid this type of spelling mistake

الر هزيم عد · 08-24-2008, 09:22 PM

Thank you Tawash for these valuable lessons.
But I have alot of questions in evry lesson I hope you don't mind.
In lesson 1 the countables
In case of plural nouns, how can we write the right plural of words like"wife===>wives" ?
How to write the plural of words end with "s" without changing the word?
In lesson 2 the compounds
If we joined two words like "in +to" is it possible to have the same meaning or not?
In lesson 3 Verbs
Can you explane evry case of verbs " past, present and futur" in all shaps of forms?

Thank you agane for this remarkable lessons

الر هزيمووووووووو عد

everlasting spr · 08-30-2008, 07:41 PM

Lesson 4: Changes occuring in the spelling

Assalamu Alaikum

Here are some spelling rules related to the changes occuring in spelling of the word when adding suffixes such as: -s / - ed / - ing / - est / - er / - or to it . I wish they will be helpful

The changes are

A) Doubling the last consonant
B) Changing y into i
C) Taking off the last e
D) Changing i into y
E) Adding e to a word
F) Changing f into v

What determine the changes made in the spelling are two things

One) The number of the syllables parts the word consisting of, since as it is known some English words has more than one syllable

Two) The type of the letters the word ending with: consonant / vowels

The Vowels are: a - e - i - o - u

The Consonants are the rest of the letters

A) Doubling The Last Consonant

The last consonant is doubled when adding the suffixes -ing / -er / -or / -ed / -est to a word ending with one vowel + one consonant in the following situations

a) the word has one syllable; e.g. sit – sitting / big – bigger
b) the word has more than one syllable and the last syllable is stressed; e.g. begin – beginning
c) the word ends in L preceded by one vowel; e.g. travel – travelled

* In American English the last L is not always doubled unless the last syllable is stressed
e.g. the last syllable in the word travel is not stressed, so the Americans write
traveler; and the last syllable in the word control is stressed, so they write
controller
* the last consonant is not doubled when adding the suffix: -s
e.g. stop – stops
* the consonants w/ y / z can never be doubled
e.g. slow – slower
* the last consonant is not doubled if it is preceded by another consonant
e.g. drink – drinking
* the last consonant is not doubled if it is preceded by more than one vowel
e.g. repeat – repeating

B) Changing y into i
The last y is changed into i when adding the suffixes -s / -er / -or /-ed / -est to a word ending with one consonant + y
e.g. try – tried / city – cities
* the last y is not changed into i if it is preceded by a vowel
e.g. The word play – played / buy – buyer boy – boys
* the last y is not changed into i when adding the suffix -ing
e.g. try – trying buy – buying

C) Taking off the Last e
The last e can be taken off when adding the suffixes - ing to a word ending with a silent e
e.g. use – using take – taking
* the last e can not be taken off if it isn’t silent
e.g. be – being / see – seeing

D) Changing i into y
The i is changed into y when adding the suffixes -ing to a word ending with i+e
e.g. die – dying / lie – lying

E) Adding an e to a word
An e can be added to a word when adding the suffix -s to words ending with
ch / sh / s / x / and sometimes o
e.g. watch – watches / crash – crashes / class – classes /
go – goes / go – goes / tomato – tomatoes
exceptions: kilo – kilos / photo – photos radio – radios

F) Changing f into v
Some times, f is changed into v when forming the plural for regular nouns ending with f/fe
e.g. half – halves / wife – wives
exception: belief – beliefs

plural irregular nouns
e.g. fish - fish / man - men / foot - feet / tooth - teeth

Best regards

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