Can You Spell?

Helping Hands from Spell checking tools.  Do you need help writing in English on a PC? Do you have a little time to finish an essay or a report, and you are just typing by looking at the keyboard without even a glimpse at the monitor? Are you worried that your work would not have the expected impact on the audience due to sloppy word gatherings with no control over? No worries! There are a number of spell-checking systems that easily facilitate your work, and in this article, we will be reviewing the best known one – Microsoft Word’s spell-checking system. Microsoft Word’s spell checking system is always there for you. Unless you shut it down! You can use this very system while writing or at the end when you are done with your work. All you need to know is the features of this very system and use it for your good account. If you take advantage of it, you will be saving your time and energy that could be wielded to better your context. Do not forget that, a very...

The Most Misspelt Words in English Do you remember your school days when your teacher used it to take surprise dictation and would repeatedly ask some of her favorite words that you always get wrong? Well, in English many words sound differently but are spelled somewhat differently, so trust me on this that it wasn’t your fault.   Therefore, if you happened to lose the game by getting a spelling wrong in the “Spelling Bee” of your school or you are continuously fed up of your Word documents underlining some words red because they are not right, remember There are thousands of well literate people who get confused and end up writing a wrong spelling of some certain words. That is why we say, it’s time to memorize the correct spelling, or at least take note of some of the wrongest spelled words in English so that you can be extra careful next time when writing or spelling these words. Following are the list of some of the very commonly misspelled words in English;   1. ...

Common Mistakes In English Writing      This page is a list of the three most common errors in English that are often found in writing. Here are the types of errors listed above, and here is the most common error you will find in your English font! [Sources: 0, 6]       There you have it, take a look at some of the most common mistakes when writing in English and find out how you can avoid them in the future. The writing skills that arise from the identification of these common errors will help you set clear points in your letter now and in the future! [Sources: 5, 17]       Spelling is the number one mistake I notice when I grade my students "written work, and they keep repeating it to me. For this purpose, I have compiled a list of a few grammatical errors that students often make in their copy. [Sources: 1, 5]       To help, here is a full list of the most commonly used colleges, and here are the full lists fo...

Sapling.ai: A Review Sapling is an extension for a web browser that checks and corrects your writing. Like other extensions, Sapling corrects your grammatical mistakes and typos. Sapling is a pay-to-use tool, but has a free Chrome extension that works on Gmail, LinkedIn, Outlook and Google Documents. With Premium, Sapling offers users the option to autocomplete emails and create drafts. Its default language is English, but it could offer correcting and autocorrect in other languages, too.   It has 3 subscription options: free, pro and enterprise. Free subscription includes Google Chrome, Outlook and Google Documents extension, Pro subscription is $25 per month and offers the users autocorrect, and advanced suggestions on vocabulary like Grammarly. Enterprise subscription’s fee is unknown and it is kind of a subscription for companies and/or teams. Enterprise subscription offers team analytics, which is a pro in my opinion because the members can always see their mistakes and it i...

How to Avoid Making Mistakes While Writing Articles For bloggers whose mother tongue is not English, writing articles for various blogs is, or may be a good money-earning source. A Turkish blogger living in Turkey, for example, could work from home writing English articles for blogs and earn good money while doing it. But at the same time, since the blogger’s native language is not English, the mistakes made in the process of writing could be a problem. These mistakes may cause your article to lose its value and you may even lose your job if you constantly make mistakes. So the first step to avoid making mistakes would be to realize that it is important to write properly. But it is not to say that making mistakes is the worst thing on earth. It is only natural to make mistakes, especially your native language is not English. There is nothing to be ashamed or afraid of making mistakes. So you will start to get better at writing eventually if you really want so. For exampl...

Thoughts from a Senior Writer Writing essays in English might be confusing when it comes to providing solid, clear and meaningful texts. Especially, when you are looking for impressing a community or a particular group of people, the more you focus on your writing skills and abilities, the more influential articles you will present. And since people nowadays are writing more than ever –essays, reviews, e-mails, text messages etc. you have to pay attention to the impact of decent writing. As English is a multicultural language that dates back to 1500 years ago, it includes thousands of words from numerous languages and cultures. Therefore, you should be open to understand and acknowledge many different lexical structures as there are a great number of them within the language itself. You will be successful in writing to the degree where you concede that English is a tough but amusing language. Considering all these features of English, which is accepted as the most spoke...

Grammarly- A Review. Grammarly is an extension that could be added to Google Chrome or Word, it can also be installed on computers using the .exe file. It corrects the mistakes-be its spelling errors or punctuation mistakes- that people make while writing articles. In this post, I will try to show some ways to use it effectively, or let us say more effectively than it seems. Grammarly , once you added it to your browser or Word, or once you download the program, will automatically correct all your mistakes while you are writing. If your mother tongue is not English, it is for good, especially when you communicate with foreign people. There are some advantages and disadvantages of using Grammarly when you write in English. Your goal should naturally be to use the advantages and avoid disadvantages. But it is not always so easy to distinguish them. For example, if something, a feature of Grammarly which you think is very useful is not necessarily an advantage. And some difficulties...

ProWritingAid - A perfect solution for a Perfect English writing? Abstract Some students of schools, colleges and universities face many problems while writing something. The main issues that are faced by many students in writing are in grammar, spelling and punctuation. These problems make writing a very difficult task for the students and teachers as well. Similarly, teachers also have to face many problems related to teaching the writing to their students. Moreover, writing is one of the most important skills in English Language. Prowritingaid helped solve all these problems related to writing. Prowritingaid web is very easy and simple to use. By using this tool, teachers can teach their students the writing in the most effective way. The students can realise their mistakes by themselves using pro writing aid web. A screenshot from the tool. Very fancy!  Introduction Writing is an important skill in any language but more so in Eng...

Grammarly Review - Is it worth it?  An internet grammar checker and proofreading instrument such as Grammarly can help prevent embarrassing typos and grammatical mistakes. However, is Grammarly the very best grammar checker? Let us find out.  A couple of decades back, I found Grammarly, a grammar and spelling checker for proofreading articles, book chapters and blog articles. Proofreading is an important part of my job as The Guardian newspaper contributor and a writer -- and it works like a charm. Please note that I concentrated mostly on the top edition of Grammarly with this review. Nevertheless, you cover a number of the upgrades and can see videos and GIFS where I reveal the differences between the two versions. What Exactly Does Grammarly Do?   Grammarly is a writing instrument that assists you in checking for many kinds of mistakes. Punctuation and grammar errors are detected by it. In addition, it supplies tips and tricks  By assessing your writing through t...