Words and More Words
- ISBN-10
- 0733909280
- ISBN-13
- 9780733909283
- Category
- Creative writing
- Pages
- 195
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Author
- Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Description
A rhyming dictionary with a full complement of writing aids to help children become the best writers they can be How do you find a word in the dictionary if you can't spell the word? What are some words that mean the same as very? Should I use it's or its in my sentence? Is affect or effect the right word for my sentence? What words rhyme with the word fast? When do you drop the final e before adding a suffix to a word? Here's a single source where beginning writers can find key information about words and how to use them effectively -- quickly and easily. It's every young writer's handbook -- for writing poetry or narrative, for school assignments or for pleasure Words and More Words contains more than 500 families of rhyming words (over 7,000 words), a section on words and their origins, commonly misspelled words, frequently misused words, plurals, prefixes, and suffixes. There is also invaluable advice for organizing, spelling, and punctuating words, plus a glossary, specialized indexes, and more
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