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English Spelling and Word Building Strategies

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3-4 hours
Free

Course Content

Improve your English writing skills with this free online course that covers spelling rules, literary devices and more. Are you passionate about writing? This course expands your vocabulary and helps you develop the skills you need to write in English. We lay out the principles of word building and identify the irregular English words frequently used in writing. We compare vowel and consonant sounds and explain how accents, synonyms and homonyms work. We also examine word divisions and provide useful pronunciation guidelines. Enrol to improve your English writing.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID201412
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration3-4 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Compare regular and irregular words
• Describe how to 'train the ear' to improve your English spelling
• Identify the individual sounds of vowels and consonants
• Distinguish between Latin and Greek prefixes used in the English language
• Summarise the rules for word building
• Explain the rules for using accents in English pronunciation
Course Code5596

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