Follow the Rules! Spelling Rules Guide to Spelling: Hooked on Phonics Introduction If U Cn Read This … Quick and Dirty Tricks of the Trade Attaching Prefixes and Suffixes: Bits and Pieces Contractions: Suck It In Follow the Rules! Spelling Rules See and Say Spelling Demons Who can trust the rules of life? You really can go swimming right after you eat; men do buy the cow even after theyve gotten the milk for free. Spelling, fortunately, has some valid rules. Here are three nifty ones that will serve you well. The -ceed/-cede rule. There are only three verbs in English that end in -ceed: succeed, proceed, and exceed. All the other verbs with that sound end in -cede. For example: secede intercede concede accede cede precede The -ful rule. Remember that the sound full at the end of a word is spelled with only one l. For example: careful graceful healthful hopeful i before e except after c … Remember this baby from the eighth grade? (Or were you too busy putting Clearasil on your nose and ogling the teacher to pay attention to something as mundane as spelling?) Heres the rule (and it even has a bouncy rhyme to it): i before e except after c or when sounded as a as in neighbor and weigh Here are some words that fit the rule. i before e except after c sounded as a achieve conceit neighbor believe ceiling weigh siege receive freight relief conceive reign grief deceit sleigh chief deceive vein fierce perceive weight fiend receipt piece receive shriek And here are some words that dont: either neither foreign height leisure seize weird Read more: Guide to Spelling: Hooked on Phonics: Follow the Rules!
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