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Basic Spelling Rules

1. The document outlines basic spelling rules for vowels and consonants in the English language. 2. It provides examples of long and short vowel sounds and rules for spelling vowels together, consonant-vowel-e patterns, using y as a vowel, doubling consonants, and other common spelling patterns. 3. The rules aim to help readers understand patterns in English spelling and correctly spell words.

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Basic Spelling Rules

1. The document outlines basic spelling rules for vowels and consonants in the English language. 2. It provides examples of long and short vowel sounds and rules for spelling vowels together, consonant-vowel-e patterns, using y as a vowel, doubling consonants, and other common spelling patterns. 3. The rules aim to help readers understand patterns in English spelling and correctly spell words.

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Basic Spelling Rules

The English language has two kinds of letters: vowels and consonants. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y or w. The consonants are the letters that are not vowels: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, z.

Long vowel: We hear the sound of the letter just as it is when we recite the alphabet. Examples: A long a is pronounced like the a in the words: make, cake, take, ache. Short vowel: The sound of the vowel is soft. Example: A short a is pronounced like the a in the words: mask, task, act, jack, bag. 1. Short-Vowel Rule: When one-syllable words have a vowel in the middle, the vowel usually has a short sound: Examples: cat, dog, man, hat, mom, dad, got. If the letter after the vowel is f, l, or s, this letter is often doubled. Examples: staff, ball, pass. 2. Two-Vowels Together: When two vowels are next to each other, the first vowel is usually long (the sound is the same as the sound of the letter) and the second vowel is silent. Examples: meat, seat, plain, rain, goat, road, lie, pie. 3. "Vowel-Consonant- e" Pattern: When a short word, or the last syllable of a longer word, ends in this pattern: vowel--consonant--e, the first vowel is usually long and the e is silent. Examples: place, cake, mice, vote, mute. 4. Y as a long i: The letter Y makes the long sound of I when it comes at the end of a short word that has no other vowel. Examples: cry, try, my, fly, by, hi. 5. Y as a long e: When y or ey ends a word in an unaccented syllable, the y has the long sound of e. Examples: money, honey, many, key, funny. 6. I before E: Write i before e when the sound is long e except after the letter c. Examples: relieve, relief, reprieve. Notice the change when there is a c preceding the ie: receipt, receive, ceiling, deceive, conceive. 7. E before I: Write e before i when the sound is long a. Examples: weight, freight, reign. 8. Oi or Oy: Use oi in the middle of a word and use oy at the end of a word. Examples: boil, soil, toil, boy, toy. 9. Ou or Ow: Use ou in the middle of a word and use ow at the end of words other than those that end in n or d. Examples: mouse, house, found, mount, borrow, row, throw, crow. 10. Double Consonants: When b, d, g, m, n, or p appear after a short vowel in a word with two syllables, double the consonant: b, d, g, m, n, or p. Examples: rabbit, manner, dagger, banner, drummer. 11. The "ch" sound: At the beginning of a word, use "ch." At the end of a word, use "tch." When the "ch" sound is followed by ure or ion, use t. Examples: choose, champ, watch, catch, picture, rapture.

How English vowel spellings can be pronounced (English spelling is mostly unpredictable)

a e i o u a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e ar er air or ow

can any stomach was baby fast sugar parent ball a

bed pretty ballet me

big meringue piano find girl

dog women mother go work do wolf

fun busy fury music fur truth put

have palate message gate mirage scare awe

fence breeches get scene eye ewe were there Wednesday

bite police give circle

bone gone done horse shoe amoeba

use guess uncle bouquet nurse blue suede

car around warm

peril sergeant her

air

for forest sailor

cow show knowledge

oy oo ai au ea ei ie y ey ou ough ua ui ugh eigh some others more still

boy oyez

moon look blood brooch poor zoology

sail said plait aisle dais naive

autumn laurel aunt chauffeur sauerkraut

beach head break heart early bear theatre

either veil foreign receipt their deist

chief sieve friend view piety

city sky they key eye

shoulder you young bouquet journey four out soup could

cough tough thorough though bought bough through

dual guarantee language guard suave

suing suit build guide fruit

eugh laugh taught Hugh

eight height ach - yacht bachelor mach stomach al - salmon always almond a-ue harangue ague argue ay- play aye carriage honour because station question dahlia straight buy choir ee - bee matinee aeroplane mouse quiot noise gargoyle manoeuvre bruise etc etc eg - phlegm eb - debt eo- leopard leonine deo eque -cheque eu - feud pleurisy hy- rhythm hyena ict- victuals indict victory oa - goat oasis broad oi - boil going

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