ENGLISH SPELLING

SPELLING MISTAKES DISTRACT READERS AND GOOD SPELLING SHOWS THE WRITER'S LEVEL OF EDUCATION

• TRUE

• FALSE

“A long vowel is followed by a single consonant plus a vowel"

LONG VOWEL + SINGLE CONSONANT + VOWEL

• TRUE

• FALSE

INFLECTIONAL SUFFIXES change the category of the word.

plays

playing

son's

played

smarter smartest

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THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF BOUND DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES

LOYALTY

HOPELESS

EXPIRES

UNBELIEVABLE

• YES

• NO

CHAT+ ING: CHATTING

INFER+ED: INFERRED

The final consonant of a word is doubled before a suffix beginning with a vowel when....

(C+ SUFFIX STARTING WITH VOWEL)

•  the word ends in a single consonant

• a single vowel comes before the consonant

• the syllable before the suffix is stressed

• the word ends in a single consonant, a single vowel comes before the consonant and the syllable before the suffix is stressed

–Y is always changed to –I

when adding a suffix.

• YES

• NO

Homophones are words that are pronounced similarly but have different meanings and spellings. These words are easily confusable.

Access/excess.

altar/alter

bare/bear

capital/capitol.

• YES

• NO

The variants –ize/-ization are more popular in British English.

• YES

• NO

A short vowel is followed by a double consonant  

STEP, STOP,BEG,

• YES

• NO

The final –e is KEPT before a suffix beginning with a vowel.

• YES

• NO