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|  | “q” is always written as “qu”. It never stands by itself. | | e.g. quick, queen, quarrel. | |
| | We double “l, f, and s” after a single short vowel at the end of a word. | | e.g. call, tall, toss, miss, stiff, stuff. | | | Exceptions: us, bus, gas, if, of, this, yes, plus, nil, pal. | |
| | Regular plurals are made by adding “s”. | | e.g. animals, horses, monkeys, and cliffs. | |
| | The sound of “ee” on the end of a word is nearly always “y”. | | Exceptions: committee and coffee. | |
| | “y” and not “i” is used at the end of an English word and is usually pronounced as a short “i”. | | Exceptions: macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli (Italian), and taxi (short for taxicab). | |
| | A silent “e” on the end of a word makes the vowel in front say its own alphabetic name. | | e.g. hate, ride, cube, bake, shire, mare, lobe. | | | Exceptions: done, come, some, give and have. | |
| | “ck” may only be used after a single vowel that does not say its name at the end of a syllable or root word. | | e.g. track, pick, rocket, wreckage. | |
| | To form plurals of words with a hissing ending, add “es”. | | i.e.after “s, x, z, sh, and ch”. | | | e.g. buses, foxes, buzzes, wishes and churches. | |
| | Words ending in an “o” preceded by a consonant usually add “es” to form the plural. | | e.g. potatoes, volcanoes. | | | Exceptions: pianos, solos, Eskimos | |
| | Nouns ending in a single “f” change the “f” to a “v” before adding “es” to form the plural. | | e.g. leaf – leaves; wolf – wolves. | | | Exceptions: dwarfs, roofs, chiefs. | |
| | If a word ends in a consonant plus “y”, change the “y” to and “i”, before adding any ending. Except: “ing”. | | e.g. | | | party – parties; | | | heavy – heaviness | | | marry – married; | | | funny – funnily | | | carry – carriage; | | | pretty – prettier | | | but; | | cry – crying; | | | hurry – hurrying | | |
| | When “w” comes before “or” it often says “wer” as “worm”. | | e.g. worship, worst, worth, work. | | | Exceptions: worry, worried, wore. | |
| | Words ending in both a single vowel and a single consonant always double the last consonant before adding an ending. | | e.g. stop, stopped, stopping. | | | flat, flatter, flattest. | | | swim, swimmer, swimming. | | | Exceptions: fix, box, fox, mix. | | “x” is the same as “ck”; that is it counts as a double consonant ending. | | |
| | When “c” is followed by “e”, “i” or “y”, it says “s”. Otherwise it says “k”. | | e.g. centre, ceiling, circle, cycle. | | | cottage, cave, cream, curious, clever. | |
| | When “g” is followed by “i”, “e” or “y”, it says “j”. Otherwise it says “g” as in gold. | | e.g. gentle, giant, gymnastic. | | | gallon, gold, guide, glass, grow. | | | Exceptions: get, got, begin, girl, give, gear, geese, gift, girth, geyser, giddy. | |
| | Drop the final “e” from a root word before adding an ending beginning with a vowel, but keep it before a consonant. | | e.g. love, loving, lovely. | | | drive, driving, driver. | | | settle, settled, settling. | | | grace, graceful. | |
| | “ti”, “ci” and “si” are three spellings most frequently used to say “sh” at the beginning of all syllables except the first. | | e.g. national, patient, palatial, infectious. | | | gracious, ancient, musician, fiancial.
session, admission, mansion, division. | | | Exceptions: “ship” as a suffix, e.g. “worship”. | |
| | “i” comes before “e” when it is pronounced “ee”, except when it follows “c” – or when sounding like “a” as in “neighbour, or weigh”. | | e.g. brief, field, priest. | | | receive, deceive, ceiling. | | | Exceptions: neither, foreign, sovereign, seized, counterfeit, forfeited, leisure. | |
| | “all” and “well” followed by another syllable only have one “l”. | | e.g. also, already, although, welcome, welfare. | |
| | “full” and “till” joined to another root syllable, drop one “l”. | | e.g. useful, cheerful, until. | |
| | For words ending in a single “l” after a single vowel, double the “l” before adding a suffix, regardless of accent. | | e.g. cancelled, traveller, signalling, metallic. | |
| | If a word of more than one syllable ends in a “t”, preceded by a single vowel, and has the accent on the last syllable, then double the final consonant. | | e.g. permit; permitted. | | | admit; admitted. | | | regret; regretted. | | | But, if the accent is on the first syllable, don’t double the “t”. | | e.g. visit; visited. | | | benefit; benefited | | |
| | “ous” at the end of a word often means “full of”. | | e.g. famous: full of fame. | | | glorious; full of glory. | | | gracious, ridiculous, furious, dangerous. | |
| | “al” at the end of a word often means “to do with”. | | e.g. musical:to do with music. | | | criminal:to do with crime. | | | historical:to do with history. | |
| | “er” or “or” endings. The most common everyday words end in “er”. | | e.g. baker, painter, teacher. | | | If in doubt, use “or”, when the meaning of the word is “one who” or “that which”. | | e.g. author, director, instructor, indicator, conveyor, escalator. | | |
| | “ery” or “ary” endings. Words ending in “ery” are often obvious. | | e.g. very, brewery, flattery, bakery, nursery. | | | If in doubt, use “ary”. | | e.g. dictionary, secretary, commentary, stationary. | | | | Seven words ending in “ery” that might cause trouble. | | e.g. distillery, confectionery, millinery, cemetery, dysentery, monastery, stationery (paper). | | |
| | “ise”, “ize” or “yse” endings. Most of these words end in “ise”. | | e.g. sunrise, surprise, supervise, exercise, disguise, unwise, surmise, advertise. | | | Only two common words end in “yse”. | | i.e. analyse and paralyse. | | | | Only two common words end in “ize”. | | i.e. prize and capsize. | | |
| | “ceed”, “sede” and “cede”.
| | Three “ceed” words; succeed, exceed, proceed. | | | One “sede” word; supersede. | | | All others “cede” | | e.g.intercede, antecede, precede. | | |
| | “able” or “ible” endings.
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| | Use “able”:
| | After root words. | | e.g. available, dependable. | | | | After root words ending in “e”. | | e.g. desirable, believable, usable (drop the “e”). | | | | After “i”. | | e.g. reliable, sociable. | | | | When other forms of the root word have a dominant “a” vowel. | | e.g. irritable, durable, abominable. | | | | After a hard “c” or “g”. | | e.g. educable, practicable, navigable. | | | | Exceptions: formidable, inevitable, memorable, probable, portable, indomitable, insuperable. | |
| | Use “ible”
| | After non-root words. | | e.g. audible, horrible, possible. | | | | When the root has an immediate “ion”form. | | e.g. digestible, suggestible, convertible. | | | | After a root ending in “ns” or “miss”. | | e.g. responsible, comprehensible, permissible. | | | | After a soft “c” or “g”. | | e.g. legible, negligible, forcible, invincible. | | | | Exceptions: contemptible, resistible, collapsible, flexible. | |
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5 Spelling Rules to Know
- 5 spelling rules to know. 1 I Before E, Except After C. ...
- 2 Adding suffixes to words that end in y. When you add a suffix that starts with e (such as -ed, -er, or -est) to a word that ends in y, the y usually changes to an i. ...
- 3 The silent e. ...
- 4 Double consonants. ...
- 5 Plural suffixes.
NGST Spelling Rules
| Rule number | Rule | Example word |
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| 32/33/34/35 | The /l/ sound spelt -le, -el, -al and -il at the end of words | table |
| 36 | The /aɪ/ sound spelt -y at the end of words | cry |
| 37 | Adding -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y | cries |
| 38 | Adding -ed, -ing, -er and -est to a root word ending in -y | copied |
71 more rowsIt includes the doubling rule (1-1-1), the drop e rule, the change y to i and suffixes added without a change. NEW!! I have included a digital version of all the student recording sheets in this resource to use in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
What is the 7 letter spelling rule? ›
The 7-letter rule is an important spelling rule in Russian that has no exceptions. The rule applies to these letters no matter where they are in the word – whether they are at the beginning, middle, or end. The rule reads as follows: After the letters г, к, х, ж, ш, ч, щ, you cannot write the letters ы, ю, я.
What is the rule 20 in spelling? ›
Rule 20: -ED, past tense ending, forms another syllable when the base word ends in /d/ or /t/. Otherwise, -ED says /d/ or /t/. Rule 21: To make a noun plural, add the ending -S, unless the word hisses or changes; then add -ES. Some nouns have no change or an irregular spelling.
What is spelling rule 11? ›
Rule Page 4 (Rule 11): 11. Words ending with a silent final e are written without the e when adding an ending that begins with a vowel. Rule Page 5 (Rule 12): 12. The letter i comes before e, except after c, when we say “a” and in the list of exceptions.
What is rule 3 in spelling? ›
Rule #3: Double Consonants and Drop Silent Letters
If there is an ending vowel plus a consonant, you often double the consonant. So brim becomes brimming because it ends in 'im. ' Therefore blink does not become blinkking because it ends with is a vowel plus two consonants: ink.
What is the Z rule in spelling? ›
Spelling the /z/ sound
When you hear /z/ at the start of a word it will almost always be written with z. When you hear /z/ at the end of a word it is often written with s (his, as, was, does). N.B. There are other rules for this but they aren't relevant for beginners.
What is spelling rule 6? ›
Spelling Rule 6 wording clarification: "When a one-syllable word ends in a single-vowel Y, it always says /ī/." Phonograms with Limited Usage lists: several updates and corrections, particularly words where ei says /ī/ and words using ough.
What is spelling rule 29? ›
rule 29 The double consonant is pronounced in both syllables for spelling, but only pronounced in the accented syllable for reading.
CONCEPT When a base word ends in silent-e, drop the e before adding a vowel suffix. This is the Dropping Rule. Learning the Dropping Rule helps students spell words that cannot be spelled exactly as they sound.
What is the doubling rule for spelling? ›
CONCEPT When a base word has one syllable, has one vowel, and has one consonant at the end, double the final consonant before adding a vowel suffix. This is the Doubling Rule.
What is the CVC rule for spelling? ›
CVC stands for “consonant, vowel, consonant.” When the last three letters of a one-syllable word follow the CVC pattern, the last consonant should be doubled when adding the ending. Consider the examples below: 1 The word “drop” becomes dropped or dropping. 2 The word “big” becomes bigger or biggest.
Does 10 need to be spelled out? ›
Spell out numbers nine and below; use numerals for numbers above 10. Avoid starting sentences with numbers; most can be spelled out, but years must appear as numerals, so try to write the sentence a different way.
What is the ZZ spelling rule? ›
It is called the floss rule because three of these letters are in the word floss. If you take on a French accent and call it Ze Floss Rule, all four letters will be prepresented. The Rule: If the word ends in f, l, s, z and there is a short vowel before it, then you double the f, l, s, or z.
What are the rules for commonly misspelled words? ›
Common Spelling Rules
Rule: With words or syllables that end in a silent e, drop the e before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel. Rule: If the suffix doesn't start with a vowel, keep the silent e. Rule: With syllables that end in y, change the y to i before adding a suffix (including the plural -es).
