Study English Grammar » capitals http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com Free English Grammar Tips & Blog Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:34:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Six common mistakes in English writing http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/six-common-mistakes-in-english-writing.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/six-common-mistakes-in-english-writing.htm#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:15:37 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=128 Better English writing is becoming difficult nowadays and this is mainly because of the dropping of the English writing standards among the people. Nowadays, abbreviations are being used in messages and this has spilled over to the other areas of communication making the standard of English writing more and more worse. Better English writing is in danger and every day we are able to spot blatant mistakes being made in radio, television, pamphlets, newspapers, e-mail, websites and other areas as well. Mistakes in written English are carried over to the spoken English and the same is happening vice versa. Therefore, it is better to see that the following six common mistakes, which are generally committed by people in written English, are avoided.

  1. Capitals letters: For emphasizing words, people are using capital letters in the middle of the sentences. Instead of using capital letters in the middle, it is better to use bold letters or color differentiation or larger fonts for emphasizing purpose.
  2. Commas: As we all know, comma is a kind of p... Read more...

    ]]> http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-tips/six-common-mistakes-in-english-writing.htm/feed 0 Two Common Spelling Problems in English Writing http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/writing/two-common-spelling-problems-in-english-writing.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/writing/two-common-spelling-problems-in-english-writing.htm#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:44:17 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=103 Double consonants or single consonants?
    We are continuing here with problems in the body of a word. How, for example, does one spell a word like embarrass? How does one know, if at ell, that there are two ‘r’s in it? The fact is that there is no simple way of inferring what is correct. There comes a point at which you have to know these things or run a spell-check (or risk getting it wrong). Time and time again; there is no clear way of knowing whether we require a double or a single letter for a consonantal sound. we are going to provide a list of the words that are spelt wrongly not just in students’ essay but in a whole range of formal documents: words like accommodate end appall, committee and exaggerate, skilful and unparalleled.

    But there is one rule for the endings of words, even if it is not instantly memorable. Consequently, we have begin and beginning, stop and stopping, but in unparalleled above, the emphasis wasn’t on the last syllable in the word unparallel. What about adding to sleep? It’s sleeping, because the consonant p isn’t preceded by a single vowel. We are aware t... Read more...

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