Spelling Lesson 8

Spelling Lesson 8

NEW WORDS

editor	original	criticize	career
journal	magazine	ignorant	readily
publish	feature	entitled	completely
collection	popular	literary	personally
circulation	campaign	distinguish	sensible

EXERCISES

1. In your New Words, journal is spelled with a small letter because it is used as a common noun. Write a sentence using journal as a proper noun.
   
   
2. Write editor. Then write the possessive form of the word. Use the possessive form in a sentence.
   
   
3. Write publish and distinguish. Add the suffixes ed and ing to each word.
   
   
4. Write two New Words ending in tion.
   
   
5. Find and write two New Words in which ly was added to a root word without any change. Now write another New Word ending in ly and tell how the root word was changed.
   
   
6. Say the word campaign. What sound do the letters paign have? Write campaign.
   
   
7. Write the following words in syllables: ignorant, career, literary, entitled, sensible, feature, and popular.
   
   
8. Notice the z in the last syllable of criticize. Criticize may be spelled criticise, but the former spelling is preferred. Write criticize.
   
   
9. Write the root word of original.