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Common Spelling Rules

Definition of common terms:


➢ Suffix: groups of letters attached to the end of a word to change the
word’s meaning.

➢ Prefix: groups of letters attached to the beginning of a word to change


the word’s meaning.

Spelling Rules:

1) Use i before e, except after c.

Examples: piece, chief, achieve, perceive, ceiling, Receive.

Some exceptions: neighbour, weird, height, neither, weigh, foreign.

2) Drop the final e in a word before adding a suffix


beginning with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) but not before a suffix
beginning with a consonant.

Examples: ride + ing = riding, guide + ance = guidance, like + ness =


likeness, arrange + ment = arrangement.

3) Change the final y to i before adding a suffix, unless the


suffix begins with i.
Examples: party + es = parties, try + es = tries, try + ed =tried, try + ing =
trying, copy + ing = copying.

4) Double the final single consonant before adding ed or


ing if:
A- the word is one-syllable word.
B- the word one ends with a single vowel followed by a single consonant
except the words that end with X, W and Y.

Examples: stop + ing = stopping, swim + ing = swimming, get + ing =


getting, box + ing = boxing, trip + ed = tripped, work + ed = worked.

5) The letter q is usually followed by u.


Examples: queen, quick, quality.

6) The letter s never follows x, so when you make a word


plural, if the word ends with x add es.

Examples: box = boxes, flex = flexes

7) The consonants v, j, k, w and x are never doubled.

8) To make a word plural, if the word ends with a


consonant and y, change the y to an i and add es.
Example: ‘baby’ plural is ‘babies’.

Common Spelling Rules


9) Words ending in a vowel and y can add the suffix -ed or
-ing without making any other change.

Examples: buying, delaying, employed.

10) Most common prefixes and suffixes in English:

-tion: description, application, calculations.

-sion: discussion, commissioners, concession.

-ment: development, department, employment.

-ence: experience, influence, reference.

-ance: advance, balance, dance.

-ship: internship, entrepreneurship, professorship.

-age: language, page, advantages.

-ive: creative, elective, interactive.

-tive: perspectives, quantitative, representatives.

-ous: serious, thousand, various.

-ious: prestigious, previously, mysterious.

-ful: successful, useful, beautiful.

-est: greatest, honest, interest.

Common Spelling Rules


-able: sustainable, unavoidable, usable.

-ible: possible, visible, accessible.

-ness: witnesses, awareness, business.

Common Spelling Rules

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