Stardard English Spelling Flashcards
Suffix beginning with a vowel
Guide+ance= guidance
Hide+ing = hiding
Titrations+ing= titrating
Suffix beginning with a consonant
Derange+ment= derangement
Like+ly=likely
Like+ness=likeness
Regular Plurals
- You only add an -a
▫️Apple/apples
▫️Car/cars
▫️Nurse/nurses - Add -es
▫️Dashes, lunches, bosses - 🔺-ves for some ending in -f or -fe
▫️elf/elves, life/lives, self/selves
Exception: chief/chiefs, proof/proofs
Homophones
Words pronounced the same but are spelled differently
Ate/Eight Bare/Bear Hole/whole Its/it’s Seam/seem
Homographs
Words spelled the same but have different meaning.
Bat
▫️piece of sporting equipment
▫️ winged animal
Bow, etc.
8 parts of speech
Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections
Clause
Group of words that contain a subject and a verb
All of the following 3 (ind clause, dep clause and phrase) can be combined into a sentence
“although I’ve been snacking all day, I am hungry for sweets”
Independence clause
Simple sentence that can stand on its own
“I am hungry”
Dependence clause
Cannot stand on its own because it doesn’t finish a complete thought
“Although I’ve been snacking all day….”
Phrase
Group of words that doesn’t have a subject and a verb and is used as a single part of speech
“For sweets”
Indirect object
Person or thing to whom or which something is done
Interjection
Words or phrases that represent short bursts of emotion
Modifiers
Word or group of words that provides description for another word
Predicate
The part of a sentence that explains what the subject does or is like
Pronoun
Word that takes the place of a noun
