Tip of the week

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Unit 11

• Tip of the week
• For one-syllable words ending in a single vowel
  then a single consonant, double the last
  consonant before adding ing, -ed, or -est.
• exceptions related rules to be learned in future
  weeks

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• Tip words
• 1) knitting
• 2) stopped

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• Academic Verbs
• 3) omit to leave out
• Omit unnecessary details when writing a summary.
• 4) distinguish to recognize as different
• Can you distinguish different English dialects?

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• Commonly misspelled words
• 5) generous
• Gene is very generous.
• 6) embarrassed
• Reckless Randy felt so stupid.
• (two as, two rs, two ss)

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• Roots/prefixes/suffixes
• auto self
• port to carry
• trans across, through
• logy the science or study of

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• 7) autobiography writing about
• the life of oneself
• 8) transport to carry across
• 9) transient something that passes through
  (brief)
• 10) mythology the study of myth

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• Commonly confused words
• 11) allowed (past tense of v. allow)
• You are not allowed to write u instead of the
  pronoun you.
• 12) aloud (adv.) audible
• Repeat that quote aloud.