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Useful Spelling Rules
- If a word ends in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to an i before every suffix except -ing.
- salary, salaries
- marry, married
- lonely, loneliness
- worry, worried
- copy, copying
- try, trying
- fly, flying
- worry, worrying
- Write i before e, except after c or when sounded like a, as in neighbor and weigh.
- i before e:
- brief, piece, chief, yield
- e before i:
- receive, deceive, ceiling, freight, sleigh
- Exceptions: either, neither, seize, leisure, weird, species, financier. Also, when the vowels are in different syllables, as science.
- If a word has only one syllable and ends with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel (hop, bat) and a suffix begins with a vowel (-er, -ed, -ing), double the final consonant.
- stop, stopped
- bat, batter
- rub, rubbing
- trip, tripped
- drop, dropping
- spin, spinning
- If the word has more than one syllable and the final syllable is stressed, double the final consonant.
- If a word ends with a silent e and a suffix is added, drop the e if the suffix begins with a vowel.
- love, lovable
- desire, desirable
- move, moving
- use, usable
- but keep the e if it is preceded by c or g and the suffix begins with a, o, or u
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- notice, noticeable
- courage, courageous
- manage, manageable
- Exceptions: words ending in ee never drop the final ee.
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- agree, agreeing
- see, seeing
- Keep the e if the suffix begins with a consonant.
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- use, useful
- love, lovely
- engage, engagement
- move, movement
- Exceptions: words that end in -ple,
-ble, and -tle, drop the -le before adding -ly.
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- simple, simply
- gentle, gently
- probably, probably
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