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The phrase "ability to spell properly" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's skill or competence in spelling words correctly.
Example: "Her ability to spell properly has always impressed her teachers."
Alternatives: "skill in spelling" or "proficiency in spelling".
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Texting is compromising their ability to spell properly!
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Not to spell properly is a sign of being common, as once was ignorance of Latin.
Does the ability to spell correctly reflect intelligence or merely rote learning?
But one thing is definitely unreliable: Its ability to spell English words.
But I will say, given my lack of ability to spell well, if our literature is without spelling errors, it is not because of me.
At the journalism school at San Jose State University, students were caught using spell check on their laptops when part of the exam was designed to test their ability to spell.
And the ability to spell- and grammar-check across applications definitely comes in handy.
Regularly using the spell checker will almost certainly reduce your ability to spell well on your own.
Kids are losing the ability to write and spell properly.
This is to make sure you know how to write, spell properly and are proficient at grammar and punctuation!
If she stopped to, say, spell properly, then we would feel that she was being less raw.
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