English 9A

I have added a new link to the list under “Resources”, at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar. The Daily Writing Tips blog provides a nice service: if you subscribe by email or RSS you receive an interesting little writing tip plus a vocabulary word every day. Most of them are quite good, and [...]

If you still think that English spelling makes sense, consider loose, lose, choose, and chose.

Loose means ‘not tight’. It looks like moose, and sounds like it, so perhaps this will help you remember:

The moose is loose!!

Lose looks like it should rhyme with hose and close, but it doesn’t. Instead it rhymes [...]

Exit / Excite

An exit is a way out. It can also be a verb meaning to leave or go out: “Everyone should exit the building immediately”.

However, if you are really happy and enthusiastic about something, you are not “exited”—there is no such word. Instead you are excited. Perhaps this will help you [...]