Good spelling is essential when it comes to expressing ourselves, whether it is to communicate with people or to apply for a job, participate in an interview, present a letter or report on the work done, take an exam, etc.
Remember that many work requests are made by filling out forms online and you have the spell checker that solves your spelling problems, although not all.
Spaniards have a great advantage over other Spanish-speaking people since they pronounce well the differences between the “v”, the “b”, the “S”, the “c” and the “z”, the “j”, and the “g”, among others, which facilitates writing. When we speak well it is easier to write well. Of course there are words that because we don’t know their meaning we tend to confuse them and for this reason we don’t know how to write them and others that are true confusions, meaningless because only one of the two words exists, it is well written but our mind refuses to remember it and each Every time we write it, doubts arise or we always write it wrong because we associate it with another similar one.
What do you need to write going or going?
- Paper, pencil
- Computer with Internet connection.
- Books and magazines to read
Instructions to write going or going
- One of the main issues to improve spelling, since this is what knowing how to write going or going is about reading. Conscious reading, reading paying attention to words, continuous, daily reading and then writing. Read a paragraph and then write it with your words, trying to use the words you read so as not to simplify the vocabulary, use the dictionary to find out what the words you don’t know mean and thus expand your lexicon, repeat those words that you misspelled several times, self-correct yourself, compare what you write with what you read in a newspaper, book, magazine, etc. A good exercise is to take a paragraph from the newspaper, for example, read a sentence and write it on a piece of paper, after you have completed the entire paragraph you start comparing what is written with what is in the newspaper. Mark all the mistakes, the misspelled words but you know their meaning, write them several times and create sentences with them. The words that you do not know, well or badly spelled, look them up in the dictionary and make sentences with them.
- Now let’s go to our thing: it is written going or going.
- The correct form is GOING, the gerund of the verb IR, it is used in compound conjugations like:
- I am going
- You are going
- He is going
- We are going
- You are going
- They are going
- The GERUND is a conjugation of the verb that demonstrates an action but is not defined by time (present, past, etc), or by the mode (Indicative, Subjunctive, etc), or by the person (I, You, etc). The gerund, together with the participle and the infinitive, is one of the non-personal forms of the verb. They are examples of gerunds: running, jumping, buying, studying, going.
- What is the rule to form the gerund if the verb is regular: the ending andoor iendo is added to the root of the verb. Remember that the root of the verb is obtained by removing the ending ar, er or ir from the verb. For the verbs of the first conjugation (ending in ar ) the ending ando is added to the root, and for the verbs of the second and third conjugation (er, ir) is added.
- For example: verb to love, first conjugation, the gerund will be : loving :loving; from the second conjugation: correr, the gerund will be coorr_ iendo : correrando and from the third conjugation, partir, the gerund will be parting.
- But what happens if the verb is irregular, as is the case of the verb to go or with other special cases, it is known that the verb “to go” belongs to the third conjugation, so only iendo should be added, but this is not done like this but the “ i ” is replaced by a “ y ”, that is to say that the gerund of the verb to go is going, never going.
- This is similar to the verb to read: if we abide by the general rule we would say reading, but also in this case the “i” is changed to the “y” forming the word
- Examples: While I was going to the fair I met my dear old friend from school.
- Who was with you when you were going to the hospital?
Tips for writing going or going
- Instill reading in children from an early age so that spelling is formed with them. There is no better way to achieve this than through reading.
- Look for books, magazines, and everything you can read in your leisure time, avoid cell phone games and things that waste time if you want to improve your vocabulary and spelling.