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Thursday, December 13, 2012

MTS / POSTMAN / GDS TO PA / PA RECRUITMENT MATERIAL

             ENGLISH GRAMMAR

MOST COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS


 Here is a list of the most commonly Misspelled Words in English which I consider not interesting enough to write up as separate entries. These are the correct spellings. 


Absence, abundance, accessible, accidentally, acclaim, accommodate, accomplish, accordion, accumulate, achievement, acquaintance, across, address, advertisement, aggravate, alleged, annual, apparent, appearance, argument, atheist, athletics, attendance, auxiliary 

Balloon, 
barbecue, barbiturate, bargain, basically, beggar, beginning, believe, biscuit, bouillon, boundary, Britain, Buddha, business 

Calendar, camouflage, 
cantaloupe, category, cemetery, chagrined, challenge, characteristic, changing, chief, cigarette, climbed, collectible, colonel, colossal, column, coming, committee, commitment, comparative, competent, completely, concede, conceive, condemn, condescend, conscientious, consciousness, consistent, continuous, controlled, coolly, corollary, convenient, correlate, correspondence, counselor, courteous, courtesy, criticize 

Deceive, defendant, deferred, dependent, descend, description, desirable, despair, desperate, develop, development, difference, dilemma, dining, disappearance, disappoint, disastrous, discipline, disease, dispensable, dissatisfied, doesn't, dominant, 
drunkenness 

Easily, ecstasy, efficiency, eighth, either, eligible, emperor, enemy, entirely, equipped, equivalent, especially, exaggerate, exceed, excellence, excellent, exhaust, existence, expense, experience, experiment, explanation, extremely, exuberance 

Fallacious, fallacy, familiar, fascinate, feasible, fictitious, finally, financially, fluorescent, forcibly, foreign, forfeit, formerly, foresee, forty, fourth, fulfill, fundamentally 

Gauge, generally, genius, government, governor, grievous, guarantee, guerrilla, guidance 

Handkerchief, happily, harass, height, heinous, hemorrhage, heroes, hesitancy, hindrance, hoarse, hoping, humorous, hypocrisy, 
hypocrite 

Ideally, idiosyncrasy, ignorance, imaginary, immediately, implement, incidentally, incredible, independence, independent, indicted, indispensable, inevitable, influential, information, inoculate, insurance, intelligence, intercede, interference, interrupt, introduce, irrelevant, irresistible, island 

Jealousy, judicial, knowledge 

Kennel, kernel, kiln, kindle, kinetic, knave, knoll, knit 

Laboratory, legitimate, leisure, length, lenient, liaison, license, lieutenant, lightning, likelihood, likely, longitude, loneliness, losing, lovely, luxury 

Magazine, maintain, maintenance, manageable, maneuver, marriage, mathematics, medicine, millennium, millionaire, miniature, minuscule, minutes, mischievous, missile, misspelled, mortgage, mosquito, mosquitoes, murmur, muscle, mysterious 

Narrative, naturally, necessary, necessity, neighbor, neutron, ninety, ninth, noticeable, nowadays, nuisance 

Obedience, obstacle, occasion, occasionally, occurred, occurrence, official, omission, omit, omitted, opinion, opponent, opportunity, oppression, optimism, ordinarily, origin, original, outrageous, overrun 

Panicky, parallel, parliament, particularly, pavilion, peaceable, peculiar, penetrate, perceive, performance, permanent, permissible, permitted, perseverance, persistence, physical, physician, picnicking, piece, pilgrimage, pitiful, planning, pleasant, portray, possess, possessive, potato, potatoes, practically, prairie, preference, preferred, prejudice, preparation, prescription, prevalent, primitive, privilege, probably, procedure, proceed, professor, prominent, pronounce, pronunciation, propaganda, psychology, publicly, pursue 

Quandary, quarantine, questionnaire, quizzes 

Realistically, realize, really, recede, receipt, receive, recognize, recommend, reference, referred, relevant, relieving, religious, remembrance, reminiscence, renege, repetition, representative, resemblance, reservoir, resistance, restaurant, rheumatism, rhythm, rhythmical, roommate 

Sacrilegious, sacrifice, safety, salary, satellite, scary, scenery, schedule, secede, secretary, seize, sentence, separate, sergeant, several, shepherd, shining, similar, simile, simply, sincerely, skiing, soliloquy, sophomore, souvenir, specifically, specimen, sponsor, spontaneous, statistics, stopped, strategy, strength, strenuous, 
stubbornness, subordinate, subtle, succeed, success, succession, sufficient, supersede, suppress, surprise, surround, susceptible, suspicious, syllable, symmetrical, synonymous 

Tangible, technical, technique, temperature, tendency, themselves, theories, therefore, thorough, though, through, till, tomorrow, tournament, tourniquet, transferred, truly, twelfth, 
tyranny 

Unanimous, undoubtedly, unnecessary, until, usage, usually 

Vacuum, valuable, vengeance, vigilant, village, villain, violence, visible 

Warrant, Wednesday, weird, wherever, wholly 

Xenophobe, 
xenophobia 

Yacht, yield 

Zoology 

Correct spelling
Spelling advice
Common misspelling
accommodate, accommodation
two cs, two ms
accomodate, accomodation
achieve
i before e
acheive
across
one c
accross
aggressive, aggression
two gs
agressive, agression
apparently
-ent not -ant
apparantly
appearance
ends with -ance
appearence
argument
no e after the u
arguement
assassination
two double s’s
assasination
basically
ends with -ally
basicly
beginning
double n before the -ing
begining
believe
i before e
beleive, belive
bizarre
one z, double -r
bizzare
business
begins with busi-
buisness
calendar
-ar not -er
calender
Caribbean
one r, two bs
Carribean
cemetery
ends with -ery
cemetary
chauffeur
ends with -eur
chauffer
colleague
-ea- in the middle
collegue
coming
one m
comming
committee
double m, double t, double e
commitee
completely
ends with -ely
completly
conscious
-sc- in the middle
concious
curiosity
-os- in the middle
curiousity
definitely
-ite- not –ate-
definately
dilemma
-mm- not -mn-
dilemna
disappear
one s, two ps
dissapear
disappoint
one s, two ps
dissapoint
ecstasy
ends with –sy
ecstacy
embarrass
two rs, two s’s
embarass
environment
n before the m
enviroment
existence
ends with -ence
existance
Fahrenheit
begins with Fahr-
Farenheit
familiar
ends with -iar
familar
finally
two ls
finaly
fluorescent
begins with fluor-
florescent
foreign
e before i
foriegn
foreseeable
begins with fore-
forseeable
forty
begins with for-
fourty
forward
begins with for-
foward
friend
i before e
freind
further
begins with fur-
futher
gist
begins with g-
jist
glamorous
-mor- in the middle
glamourous
government
n before the m
goverment
guard
begins with gua-
gaurd
happened
ends with -ened
happend
harass, harassment
one r, two s’s
harrass, harrassment
honorary
-nor- in the middle
honourary
humorous
-mor- in the middle
humourous
idiosyncrasy
ends with -asy
idiosyncracy
immediately
ends with -ely
immediatly
incidentally
ends with -ally
incidently
independent
ends with -ent
independant
interrupt
two rs
interupt
irresistible
ends with -ible
irresistable
knowledge
remember the d
knowlege
liaise, liaison
remember the second i:liais-
liase, liason
lollipop
i in the middle
lollypop
millennium, millennia
double l, double n
millenium, millenia
Neanderthal
ends with -thal
Neandertal
necessary
one c, two s’s
neccessary
noticeable
remember the middle e
noticable
occasion
two cs, one s
ocassion, occassion
occurred, occurring
two cs, two rs
occured, occuring
occurrence
two cs, two rs, -ence not -ance
occurance, occurence
pavilion
one l
pavillion
persistent
ends with -ent
persistant
pharaoh
ends with -aoh
pharoah
piece
i before e
peice
politician
ends with -cian
politican
Portuguese
ends with –guese
Portugese
possession
two s’s in the middle and two at the end
posession
preferred, preferring
two rs
prefered, prefering
propaganda
begins with propa-
propoganda
publicly
ends with –cly
publically
really
two ls
realy
receive
e before i
recieve
referred, referring
two rs
refered, refering
religious
ends with -gious
religous
remember
-mem- in the middle
rember, remeber
resistance
ends with -ance
resistence
sense
ends with -se
sence
separate
-par- in the middle
seperate
siege
i before e
seige
successful
two cs, two s’s
succesful
supersede
ends with -sede
supercede
surprise
begins with sur-
suprise
tattoo
two ts, two os
tatoo
tendency
ends with -ency
tendancy
therefore
ends with -fore
therefor
threshold
one h in the middle
threshhold
tomorrow
one m, two rs
tommorow, tommorrow
tongue
begins with ton-, ends with -gue
tounge
truly
no e
truely
unforeseen
remember the e after the r
unforseen
unfortunately
ends with -ely
unfortunatly
until
one l at the end
untill
weird
e before i
wierd
wherever
one e in the middle
whereever
which
begins with wh-
wich


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