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Spelling and Pronunciation
English Spelling and Pronunciation
English Spelling and Pronunciation
Curriculum
6 Sections
176 Lessons
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"key" vs. "queue"
1
0.0
“key in/into” vs. “queue in/into”
The Alphabet
9
1.0
Introductions To The Alphabet
1.1
Vowels
1.2
Consonants
1.3
Consonant Digraphs
1.4
Trigraphs
1.5
Tetragraphs
1.6
Other Letters, Marks, and Symbols
1.7
Diacritics
1.8
Ligatures
Spelling Conventions
24
2.0
Introduction To Spelling Conventions
2.1
Affixes
2.2
Prefixes
2.3
Suffixes
2.4
Commonly Confused Suffixes
2.5
Commonly Confused Suffixes: -able vs. -ible
2.6
Commonly Confused Suffixes: -ant vs. -ent
2.7
Commonly Confused Suffixes: -ance and -ancy vs. -ence and -ency
2.8
Commonly Confused Suffixes: -er, -or, and -ar
2.9
Commonly Confused Suffixes: -ic vs. -ical
2.10
Commonly Confused Suffixes: -tion vs. -sion
2.11
Spelling Conventions with Suffixes
2.12
Changing Y to I with Suffixes
2.13
Adding Suffixes after Silent E
2.14
Doubling Consonants with Vowel Suffixes
2.15
Inflection in Spelling
2.16
Forming Plurals
2.17
Forming Contractions
2.18
Enclitics
2.19
The Three-Letter Rule
2.20
I Before E, Except After C
2.21
Rules for Capitalization
2.22
Foreign Loanwords and Loan Translations
2.23
American English vs. British English Spelling
Pronunciation Conventions
14
3.0
Introduction To Pronunciation Conventions
3.1
Tricky Vowel Sounds (Monophthongs, Diphthongs, and Triphthongs)
3.2
Diphthongs
3.3
Triphthongs
3.4
Tricky Consonant Sounds
3.5
Forming the /k/ Sound
3.6
Forming the /z/ Sound
3.7
Forming the /ʒ/ (ZH) Sound
3.8
Pronouncing the Letter S
3.9
Silent Letters
3.10
Silent E
3.11
Syllables
3.12
Word Stress
3.13
Sentence Stress
Common Mistakes and Commonly Confused Words
127
4.1
Common Mistakes and Commonly Confused Words
4.2
“a lot” vs. “allot” vs. “alot”
4.3
“a while” vs. “awhile”
4.4
“accept” vs. “except”
4.5
“access” vs. “excess”
4.6
“ad” vs. “add”
4.7
“addition” vs “edition”
4.8
“adverse” vs. “averse”
4.9
“advice” vs. “advise”
4.10
“affect” vs. “effect”
4.11
“aisle” vs. “isle”
4.12
“all ready” vs. “already”
4.13
“all right” vs. “alright”
4.14
“all together” vs. “altogether”
4.15
“allude” vs. “elude”
4.16
“allusion” vs. “illusion”
4.17
“alter” vs. “altar”
4.18
“amoral” vs. “immoral”
4.19
“aural” vs. “oral” vs. “aura”
4.20
“bail” vs. “bale”
4.21
“bait” vs. “bate”
4.22
“ball” vs. “bawl”
4.23
“base” vs. “bass”
4.24
“bear” vs. “bare”
4.25
“birth” vs. “berth”
4.26
“Born” vs. “Borne”
4.27
“break” vs. “brake”
4.28
“breath” vs. “breadth” vs. “breathe”
4.29
“canvas” vs. “canvass”
4.30
“Capital” vs. “Capitol”
4.31
“censor” vs. “sensor” vs. “censure”
4.32
“Cereal” vs. “Serial”
4.33
“chord” vs. “cord”
4.34
“Climactic” vs. “Climatic”
4.35
“Coarse” vs. “Course”
4.36
“Complacent” vs. “Complaisant”
4.37
“compliment” vs. “complement”
4.38
“Council” vs. “Counsel”
4.39
“cue” vs. “queue”
4.40
“debt” vs. “dept.”
4.41
“defuse” vs. “diffuse”
4.42
“dependent” vs. “dependant”
4.43
“desert” vs. “dessert”
4.44
“discreet” vs. “discrete” vs. “discretion”
4.45
“disinterested” vs. “uninterested”
4.46
“dissociate” vs. “disassociate”
4.47
“dual” vs. “duel”
4.48
“elicit” vs. “illicit”
4.49
“ensure” vs. “insure” vs. “assure”
4.50
“envelop” vs. “envelope”
4.51
“environment” vs. “enviroment”
4.52
“exercise” vs. “exorcise”
4.53
“Faze” vs. “Phase”
4.54
“Flair” vs. “Flare”
4.55
“flaunt” vs. “flout”
4.56
“flounder” vs. “founder”
4.57
“Forth” vs. “Fourth”
4.58
“gorilla” vs. “guerrilla”
4.59
“grisly” vs. “grizzly” vs. “gristly”
4.60
“hanger” vs. “hangar”
4.61
“hoard” vs. “horde”
4.62
“Hoarse” vs. “Horse”
4.63
“idiosyncrasy” vs. “idiosyncracy”
4.64
“Idle” vs. “Idol” vs. “Idoll”
4.65
“illusion” vs. “delusion”
4.66
“incidence” vs. “incidents” vs. “instances”
4.67
“it’s” vs. “its”
4.68
“lead” vs. “led”
4.69
“lead” vs. “lede”
4.70
“leech” vs. “leach”
4.71
“lessen” vs. “lesson”
4.72
“let’s” vs. “lets”
4.73
“lie” vs. “lay”
4.74
“loath” vs. “loathe”
4.75
“lose” vs. “loose”
4.76
“main” vs. “mane”
4.77
“metal” vs. “mettle” vs. “medal”
4.78
“miner” vs. “minor”
4.79
“misspell” vs. “mispell”
4.80
“mode” vs. “mood”
4.81
“moose” vs. “mousse”
4.82
“Moral” vs. “Morale”
4.83
“muscle” vs. “mussel”
4.84
“Naval” vs. “Navel”
4.85
“oar” vs. “ore”
4.86
“pair” vs. “pare” vs. “pear” vs. “peer”
4.87
“Palate” vs. “Palette” vs. “Pallet”
4.88
“Peak” vs. “Peek” vs. “Pique”
4.89
“pedal” vs. “peddle” vs. “petal”
4.90
“pole” vs. “poll”
4.91
“pore” vs. “pour” vs. “poor”
4.92
“Pray” vs. “Prey”
4.93
“Precede” vs. “Proceed”
4.94
“premier” vs. “premiere”
4.95
“prescribe” vs. “proscribe”
4.96
“principal” vs. “principle”
4.97
“Quiet” vs. “Quite” vs. “Quit”
4.98
“rack” vs. “wrack”
4.99
“rein” vs. “reign”
4.100
“renounce” vs. “denounce” vs. “pronounce”
4.101
“rest” vs. “wrest”
4.102
“retch” vs. “wretch”
4.103
“ring” vs. “wring”
4.104
“Root” vs. “Route”
4.105
“should’ve”, “would’ve”, “could’ve” vs. “should of”, “would of”, “could of”
4.106
“Sight” vs. “Site” vs. “Cite”
4.107
“stationary” vs. “stationery”
4.108
“steak” vs. “stake”
4.109
“sympathy” vs. “empathy”
4.110
“Taught” vs. “Thought”
4.111
“test” vs. “text”
4.112
“then” vs. “than”
4.113
“therefore” vs. “therefor”
4.114
“they’re” vs. “there” vs. “their”
4.115
“to” vs. “too” vs. “two”
4.116
“tortuous” vs. “torturous”
4.117
“true” vs. “through”
4.118
“Vain” vs. “Vein” vs. “Vane”
4.119
“Warranty” vs. “Guarantee”
4.120
“weather” vs. “whether”
4.121
“wet” vs. “whet”
4.122
“who” vs. “whom”
4.123
“who’s” vs. “whose”
4.124
“yolk” vs. “yoke”
4.125
“yolk” vs. “yoke”
4.126
“you’re” vs. “your”
4.127
“Pause” vs. “Pose” vs. “Pulse” vs. “Purse” vs. “Pus”
"root" vs "route"
1
5.0
“Route for you” vs “Root for you”
“rest” vs. “wrest”
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