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Improve Your Spelling Skills with Mary Samuel's Rules

Enhance your English spelling by following Mary Samuel's helpful rules on adding suffixes, making nouns plural, and exceptions to common spelling patterns. Learn when to double final consonants and remember the "i before e" rule to boost your spelling accuracy. Find guidance and practice to improve your spelling competence effortlessly.

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Improve Your Spelling Skills with Mary Samuel's Rules

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  1. SPELL WELL Presented By Mary Samuel K.V.Malleswaram Spelling words in English may be tricky.Here are a few rules to help you.

  2. I’ll give you a few rules of spelling.That may help you. beginning? belief ? beleif ?

  3. When you add full to any word drop the second l! RULE 1 play+ful =playful grace + ful = graceful faith + ful = faithful

  4. wonder + full = wonderful faith + full = faithful help + full = helpful hope + full = hopeful cheerful thoughtful painful

  5. RULE 2 Double the final consonant when you are adding a suffix that begins with a vowel,to a word that ends with a vowel and a consonant. I don’t understand! h ho ing ng + = begin+ing=begi ing

  6. bag + age = baggage run + ing = running skip + ed = skipped drum + er = drummer

  7. If the accent does not fall on the last syllable,do not double the last consonant. can-cel + ed =canceled col-our + ing = colouring ben-efit + ed = benefited

  8. RULE 3 To make most nouns plural, you just add s .However there are exceptions. Add s to make a word plural if it ends with y and the letter in front of y is a vowel (a, e, i, o, u). turk y turk s y

  9. Drop the and addif the letter in front of the final is a consonant. y pup p y ies ies y pupp lad ies la d y

  10. + S + ies baby—babies diary—diaries lady—ladies story — stories library — libraries boy+s--boys journey+s --journeys play+s--plays stay+s--stays birthday+s--birthdays

  11. RULE 4 i before e Except after c Or when sounding like a As in neighbour and weigh i before e Except after c Or when sounding like a believe

  12. i before e chief except after c grief lie tie conceit receipt achieve deceive sounding like a vein eighty sleigh veil

  13. caution Some words that break the rule ancient height foreign protein leisure their science society

  14. I hope these rules will help you in your spellings.But whenever in doubt refer your dictionary Thank you very much.Now I am off to play. References Checking Your Grammar- Marvin Turban Read Better Write Better-Readers Digest

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