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In English writing there are certain rules to follow so that our writing would be clearer. When writing essays in English, make sure that you spell the words correctly. Spelling is a very important thing for many teachers.
Spelling makes difference, a bad spelling can create the image that you are not educated enough.
- To be able to spell a short vowel sound, only one letter is required:
Red, hit, hot, up, on, it, at…
- In order to spell a log sound, a second vowel must be added. The second vowel can be next to the first one (coat, sue, rain, etc.) or it can be separated from the first vowel by a consonant. (take, tide, rate, bite, etc.)
- You can spell the sound “k” in these four ways:
c: cat, car, coat, direct, effect
cc: hiccup, occupy, tobacco
k: make, keep, skill, baker
ck: suck, luck, picking, rock, duck, Kentucky, quick
- The sound “ch” is spelled in two ways:
/tch/ after a short vowel: witch, kitchen, catch
ch: channel, rich, attach, much
- The plural forms of words are spelled as “es” or “s” letter at the end of the word:
Apples, cars, boxes, bosses, fruits…
- To form the plural odd nouns ending with “y” that is proceeded by a consonant spelled as “ies”
Baby, babies, lady-ladies, strawberry-strawberries
Exception: Plural forms of some words are the same with their singular forms or change differently:
Sheep-sheep, deer-deer, mouse-mice…
- No English word ends with the letter “v”. If you hear the sound “v”, it is always spelled with “ve”.
Have, love, live, give, leave…
- To form the plural of the words ending with “o” always take “es” after itself.
Tomatoes, potatoes, tornadoes, cargoes, …
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