User manual FRANKLIN QES-90

[. . . ] 5 Spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Looking up Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Understanding Spell Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Using PAGE Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] You will see since "home" was spelled correctly. Spell Correction If "home" had not been spelled correctly, you would have seen a list of possible matches. Press ENTER. This screen is telling you that the Spellmaster has found eight possible matches to your misspelled word. 6 Spelling 3. The Queen's English Elementary Spellmaster contains a 26, 854 word list based on The Oxford Children's Dictionary. The Spellmaster first verifies whether the word you typed in is spelled correctly. It takes phonetic mistakes, transposing of letters, and missing letters into account and comes up with a list of possible matches. 7 Spelling PAGE Key After spelling a word with your Spellmaster, you may want to look it up in the dictionary. The printed Oxford Children's Dictionary (OCD) is a good source for definitions, word endings and word building information, usage notes, and colour pictures. Press PAGE. This screen shows the number of pages on which the information about the word "tree" appears in the OCD. (If a screen says "Page 1 of 2" it means the word you chose is found on more than one page in the OCD. Try the word "bore". ) This screen shows what page the word "tree" appears on in the OCD. You can turn to page 345 in the book to see more information about the word "tree". (If a screen has a hyphen after the page number it means the information about your word stretches over more than the one page. Try the word "boss". ) 8 Spelling Accenting Words Looking up accented words is easy. Press ENTER. Spellmaster adds an accent to form the word "café". Press CLEAR when done. Contractions Spellmaster also allows you to check the spelling of contractions. It will convert words to contractions for you, but if you want to type the apostrophe yourself here's how. 1. You have now spelled "don't" correctly. 9 Spelling Abbreviations A limited number of abbreviations can also be looked up. A period cannot be typed as the first letter in a word. 1. Press ENTER. on the unit. The Spellmaster shows the capitalized correct answer. Using the Crossword Match Key Your Spellmaster can match words even if you don't know how to spell them. This feature is helpful in solving crossword puzzles too. Say you know how many letters are in a word, but you aren't sure how to spell it correctly. Just type in the letters you know and type a question mark in place of the letters you don't. You will see the correct spelling of your word. [. . . ] Type in your word when the screen says "Enter word:", choose the number of tries (3-14), and then play. Press INFO to see your score. E Jumble This game takes a word from your User List and mixes up the letters. Type the word when you think you know the answer, then press ENTER. If you're correct, "You Win!!". [. . . ]