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| Subject: SPELLING RULES Wed 17 Nov - 20:36 | |
| SPELLING RULES
1. For a single syllable word, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel – double the consonant: swim; swimmer; swimming rob, robber, robbed, robbing 2. For a single syllable word, ending in a single consonant preceded by two vowels – do NOT double the consonant: meet, meeting pair, paired, pairing 3. For a multiple syllable word, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, if stress is on last syllable, double the consonant: prefer, preferred, preferring 4. For most words, add -s to the singular form to make it plural: cat, cats; bell, bells; rose, roses 5. If a word ends in vowel o, usually add -s to form the plural: monkey, monkeys (BUT money, moneys, OR monies). If a word ends in a consonant o, sometimes add -s: piano, pianos OR sometimes add -es: potato, potatoes > OR sometimes add either: zero, zeros, zeroes 6. If a word ends in f or fe, sometimes add -s to make it plural: roof, roofs OR sometimes change f or fe to -ves: half, halves; wife, wives
OR sometimes add either: scarf, scarfs, scarves 7. Add -es to the singular form when it ends in s, ss, ch, sh, x, z, or zz: bus, buses kiss, kisses church, churches bush, bushes ax, axes waltz, waltzes fizz, fizzes 8. Drop the final -e if a suffix* begins with a vowel: desire, desiring, desirable 9. Keep the final -e if a suffix begins with a consonant: care full = careful complete ly = completely excite ment = excitement 10. For a word that ends in a consonant y, change the -y to -i for most suffixes: pony, ponies deny, denies denied 11. If a word ends in -ay, -ey, -oy, form the plural by simply adding -s: ray, rays valley, valleys toy, toys 12. Sometimes you change -ie to -y before -ing: die, died, dying lie, lied, lying 13. The sound of “shun” has several different spellings: solution, occasion, mission, musician, Dalmatian, crucifixion 14. The following prefixes** give negative meaning to the original word: unhappy in visible il legal im polite ir regular
*A suffix is a word ending. It changes the part of speech of the word, but does not change the meaning of the original (“root”) word entirely: see, seeing; act, actor beauty, beautiful equip, equipment
**A prefix is a word beginning. It changes the meaning of the original (“root”) word: review preview foresee coworker
Singular, Plural of some words alumna, alumnae alumnus, alumni analysis, analyses auditorium, auditoriums bacterium, bacteria box, boxes child, children crisis, crises crisis, crises deer, deer/deers fish, fish/fishes foot, feet fungo, fungoes goose, geese house, houses man, men milk, – mother-in-law, mothers-in-law mouse, mice ox, oxen –, pants –, people physics, – –, scissors sheep, – sock, socks/sox tooth, teeth woman, womenTOPIC : SPELLING RULES SOURCE : Linguistic Studies ** http://languages.forumactif.org/ |
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