Some Rules and Suggestions about Spelleing

Some Rules and Suggestions about Spelling: 

Some Rules and Suggestions about Spelling

Suggestions: 

Suggestions

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Using A Spell-Checker Using The Dictionary Using Mnemonics Homonyms and Plurals Sounding It Out British Spellings

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American Spelling British Spelling canceled cancelled center centre check cheque color colour criticize criticise gray grey humor humour judgment judgement labor labour license licence realize realise theater theatre tire tyre valor valour

RULES: 

RULES

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Rule #1: “ I before E except after C ”; This rule, designed to help us remember how to spell words such as receive and chief , seems so promising in its simplicity at first . achieve, believe, bier, brief, hygiene, grief, thief, friend, grieve, chief, fiend, patience, pierce, priest ceiling , conceive, deceive, perceive, receipt, receive, deceit, conceit But then things get complicated: it doesn't work with words pronounced " ay" as in neighbour , freight, beige, sleigh, weight, vein, and weigh and there are many exceptions to the rule : either , neither, feint, foreign, forfeit, height, leisure, weird, seize, and seizure . Still, the rule is relatively simple and worth remembering

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Rule #2: “Dropping Final E ” When adding an ending to a word that ends with a silent e , drop the final e if the ending begins with a vowel: advancing surprising However, if the ending begins with a consonant, keep the final e : advancement likeness (However, if the silent e is preceded by another vowel, drop the e when adding any ending : argument, argued, truly. ) Exceptions: to avoid confusion and mispronunciation, the final e is kept in words such as mileage and words where the final e is preceded by a soft g or c : changeable, courageous, manageable, management, noticeable . (The word management , for example, without that e after the g , would be pronounced with a hard g sound.)

Rule #3: “Dropping Final Y”: 

Rule #3: “Dropping Final Y ” When adding an ending to a word that ends with y , change the y to i when it is preceded by a consonant . supply becomes supplies worry become s worried merry becomes merrier This does not apply to the ending - ing , however. crying studying Nor does it apply when the final y is preceded by a vowel. obeyed saying

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Rule #4: “Doubling Final Consonants” When adding an ending to a word that ends in a consonant, we double that consonant in many situations. First, we have to determine the number of syllables in the word. Double the final consonant before adding an ending that begins with a vowel when the last syllable of the word is accented and that syllable ends in a single vowel followed by a single consonant. submit is accented on the last syllable and the final consonant is preceded by a vowel, so we double the t before adding, for instance, an - ing or - ed : submitting , submitted . flap contains only one syllable which means that it is always accented. Again, the last consonant is preceded by a vowel, so we double it before adding, for instance, an - ing or - ed : flapping, flapped . This rule does not apply to verbs that end with "x," "w," "v," and "y," consonants that cannot be doubled (such as "box" [boxing] and "snow" [snowing]). open contains two syllables and the last syllable is preceded by a single vowel, but the accent falls on the first syllable, not the last syllable, so we don't double the n before adding an ending: opening, opened.

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refer contains two syllables and the accent falls on the last syllable and a single vowel precedes the final consonant, so we will double the r before adding an ending , as in referring, referral . The same would apply to begin , as in beginner, beginning. relent contains two syllables, but the final consonant is preceded by another consonant, not a vowel, so we do not double the t before adding an ending: relented, relenting. deal looks like flap (above), but the syllable ends in a consonant preceded not by a single vowel, but by two vowels, so we do not double the final l as in dealer and dealing . The same would apply, then, to despair : despairing, despaired.