Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Submit Your Good English Essays!

Do you feel that you can write well? Are you confident with your writing? Can you express yourselves clearly through essay writing? If yes, we would encourage you to submit your essays to Good English Essays and get published on this blog.

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Essay requirements:
More than 250 words written in proper English with no or very few grammatical and spelling errors.
Only original and never-published-before essays will be accepted.
Any topic except racist, religious, sexual or offensive topic.
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Essays Submitted by Readers:
Education Curriculum in India Has Stopped Producing Intellectuals (Rating: 5/5)
Malaysia, a Unique Country (Rating: 3.5/5)
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After All, It Isn’t That Bad
Of Bombs and Ice-Cream
Thoughts On Sharing
Autumn on Sugarbush Street
Faith

Sunday, July 15, 2007

The i-before-e-except-after-c Spelling Rule

If you want to give your readers a good impression in your English writing, you should avoid misspelling. Misspelling makes the writer looked stupid and unprofessional. It is important to spell English words correctly.

One of the most important spelling rules to help you to learn the correct way to spell English word is: [i] before [e] except after [c].

[i] Before [e] Spelling Rule
  • Believe beleive
  • Hierarchy heirarchy
  • Mischievous mischeivous
  • Achieve acheive


[i] before [e] except after [c] Spelling Rule
  • Receive recieve
  • Perceive percieve
  • Conceive concieve
  • Deceive decieve


You should remember that [i] usually comes before [e] except after [c] or when it is pronounced like "a" as "neighbour" nieghbour and "weigh" wiegh or "e" as in "their" thier and "heir" hier . Other exceptions include “leisure” liesure , “weird” wierd and “foreign” foriegn .