The document provides 5 tips for solving misspelled words: [1] follow rules like "i before e except after c"; [2] "e comes before i when it sounds like 'ay'"; [3] "add 'k' before endings starting with 'e', 'i', or 'y'"; [4] "drop final 'e' before vowel-starting endings"; and [5] "keep final 'e' before consonant-starting endings." It also lists commonly misspelled words like "accommodate", "correspondence", and "definite" to demonstrate applying the tips.
The document provides 5 tips for solving misspelled words: [1] follow rules like "i before e except after c"; [2] "e comes before i when it sounds like 'ay'"; [3] "add 'k' before endings starting with 'e', 'i', or 'y'"; [4] "drop final 'e' before vowel-starting endings"; and [5] "keep final 'e' before consonant-starting endings." It also lists commonly misspelled words like "accommodate", "correspondence", and "definite" to demonstrate applying the tips.
The document provides 5 tips for solving misspelled words: [1] follow rules like "i before e except after c"; [2] "e comes before i when it sounds like 'ay'"; [3] "add 'k' before endings starting with 'e', 'i', or 'y'"; [4] "drop final 'e' before vowel-starting endings"; and [5] "keep final 'e' before consonant-starting endings." It also lists commonly misspelled words like "accommodate", "correspondence", and "definite" to demonstrate applying the tips.
The document provides 5 tips for solving misspelled words: [1] follow rules like "i before e except after c"; [2] "e comes before i when it sounds like 'ay'"; [3] "add 'k' before endings starting with 'e', 'i', or 'y'"; [4] "drop final 'e' before vowel-starting endings"; and [5] "keep final 'e' before consonant-starting endings." It also lists commonly misspelled words like "accommodate", "correspondence", and "definite" to demonstrate applying the tips.
Some well-known rules need to be remembered before attempting question on Misspelt words:
1. i before e except after c
Examples of words that use ‘ie’ to make the ‘ee’ sound: achieve, niece, siege, belief
Exception
When the combination ‘ie’ sounds like ‘ay’, it is spelled ‘ei’. When the ‘ie’ combination has sounds like the short ‘e’ as in friend or the long ‘i’ as in piety, neigh. Fiery, society or the ‘ie’ combination comes after ‘c’ when it sounds like ‘sh’ as in ancient, deficient etc.
2. e comes before i when it sounds like ‘ay’ as in neighbour and weigh.
Examples of words that use ‘ei’ to make the ‘ay’ sound: eight, surveillance, feign, sleigh
Exception
When the combination ‘ei’ sounds like ‘ee’ as in either, weird, seizure or the long ‘i’ as in height or the short ‘e’ as in their, foreign etc the ‘ei’ combination is maintained.
3. A ‘k’ is added to a final ‘e’ before an ending that begins with ‘e’, ‘i’ or ‘y’.
If you didn’t add the ‘k’, the ‘c’ would become soft and sound like ‘s’. So in order to add ‘ing’ to ‘mimic’, for example, you have to put a ‘k’ first – mimicking. Or in order to add ‘ed’ to ‘picnic’, you have to put a ‘k’ first – picnicked. Also put a ‘k’ after ‘c’ for a formation like ‘panicky’.
4. Drop the final ‘e’ when you add an ending that begins with a vowel.
Examples of words that use this rule.
receive + ing = receiving
argue + able = arguable
grieve + ous = grievous
intense + ity = intensity
Exception
Keep the final ‘e’ after soft ‘c’ or soft ‘g’ in order to keep the soft sound as in peace + able = peaceable, courage + ous = courageous
Keep the final ‘e’, in cases where you need to protect pronunciation as in guarantee + ing = guaranteeing.
5. Keep the final ‘e’ before endings that begin with consonants.
Examples of words that use this rule.
amuse + ment = amusement
polite + ness = politeness
Plot No. 172, II-Floor, Above Vijaya Bank, Zone-II M.P. Nagar Bhopal [Phone]: 0755-4228585 1 sense + less = senseless
grace + ful = graceful
Exception
Drop the final ‘e’ when it occurs after the letters ‘u’ or ‘w’ as in awe + ful = awful, true + ly = truly.
The most frequently misspelled words
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