Double or Single Consonants?

Practice spelling verbs that end in a consonant when adding -ed or -ing to the end by taking these quick quizzes. http://a4esl.org/q/h/9807/km-ed-ing1.html http://a4esl.org/q/h/9807/km-ed-ing2.html http://a4esl.org/q/h/9807/km-ed-ing3.html

Online Picture Dictionary

This online picture dictionary will help you improve your English vocabulary by showing you common words along with easy to understand pictures.  You can search alphabetically or by category, such as animals, fruits, or transportation words.  You can even change to different languages with the click of a button. www.pdictionary.com/

Add New Vocabulary Every Day

Need to add some more vocabulary words to your studies?  In order to become fluent in English, you need to learn new vocabulary words every day and use them in conversations.  Get a notebook, some flashcards, or use a computer program like Word or Excel, and add at least five new English words every day.  Look up their definitions in the [...]

Spelling is Essential to Understanding

Spelling is so very important when it comes to understanding English and communicating properly.  The English language is filled with words that sound the same; words that are spelled the same; and words that have letters in them you don’t even hear when spoken…it’s crazy!  Many native speakers have poor spelling skills, but as a [...]

It’s Daylight Saving Time…not Savings!

This weekend we will turn the clocks back one hour in the United States and enter Daylight Saving Time until March.  However, many people incorrectly refer to it as Daylight “Savings” Time…which is grammatically incorrect.  Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle).  It modifies time and tells us more about its nature…meaning that it [...]

Singular to Plural

Making singular words into plural words can be difficult to understand at times because there are so many different rules that can apply and exceptions to those rules…making it more complicated than it needs to be!  For instance, most words become plural simply by adding an “s” to the end (hat/hats, car/cars, envelope/envelopes).  However, words [...]

Learn to Spell English Words Correctly

Learning to understand the meaning of English words is difficult enough, but spelling English words correctly is even harder.  The only way to improve your spelling skills is practice, practice, and more practice!    You can do this by using  your dictionary every day to look up new words and note how they are spelled.  You can also [...]

Sharpen Your Spelling Skills

In order to become a fluent English writer, you need to be able to spell English words correctly.  This can be a challenge for second language students because there are a lot of exceptions to the spelling rules.  If you want to improve your English spelling skills, you need to practice, and you can do [...]

Notorious Confusables

Some English words are just so darn confusing that it takes a lot of practice before you start getting them right every time.  Knowing when to correctly use words like except or accept;  lie or lay;  and its or it’s can be difficult even for the native speaker.  The only way you will improve upon these notorious [...]