Practice/Practise

[barefootcook]

Does anyone know of a simple way to teach children when to use practice and practise?

[FaintlyMacabre]

Think about advise and advice- same spelling pattern for noun and verb but a very different pronunciation.

[NigellasDealer]

practice is the noun and practise the verb right?

the only way i can remember is to compare with advice and advise which is far easier to get your head round cos of differing pronunciation.

to be honest i doubt if even their teachers would know this well.

does it really matter? (speaking as a lifelong pedant)

[NigellasDealer]

X post faintly

[Morgause]

Alphabetical order.

c comes before s in the alphabet and n for noun comes before v for verb.

[plantsitter]

I always remember it by thinking of the 's' as a wavy, flexible letter that doesn't mind if you change what comes after (like e, or ing, or whatever) so that's the verb whereas 'c' is a fixed and strict letter that won't change so that's the noun.

It makes sense to me... But now I see it written down I'm not sure it will to anyone else!!

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

"Ice is an noun. There is ice in practice so practice is a noun." I learned this from MN. I am American so don't have to made the distinction. We use practice for both.

[throckenholt]

hmm -ise it the verb ending - eg apologise, advertise, digitise etc

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

And that would be "a noun" in my post above, not "an noun."