VocabularySpelling

Pasco-Hernando Community College

Tutorial Series

Vocabulary – Spelling

These are the vocabulary words for this lesson.

Read through carefully and print out if possible. 

Don't be overwhelmed.  The information will be repeated throughout

the module, and there will be practice exercises.

Vocabulary - Spellingproper noun - a noun (person, place, or thing)

which is a name.quotation marks - quotation marks are the symbols

that are used around quotations.  They show that the words enclosed in the quotation marks are someone else's other than the author of what we're reading.  Quotation marks are double: "quotation marks."  Single quotation marks are the single version: 'single quotation marks.'  They are only used when you have to use quotation marks inside quotation marks.  There are other uses for regular (double) quotation marks in addition to showing quotes.

Vocabulary - Spellingsalutation (in business letters) - the opening

address such as Dear Sir or Madam.closing (in business letters) - the ending

phrase such as Sincerely yours.apostrophe - an apostrophe ( ' ) is the

symbol to show possession or contraction.possessive - to show ownership.

Vocabulary - Spellingcontraction - where one or more letters are

omitted, and two words are joined (contracted) to become one with an apostrophe to show where the omitted letters were: do not - don't. 

homonym - two words that sound alike but are spelled differently and mean different things: whether and weather; they're, there, and their.