How to Correct Spelling of Words
How to Improve spelling of words
There are few rules to improve the spelling of words and develop the skill to make correct spelling of words. So, follow the rules and improve the spelling of words
Rule:1
Mono-syllable (one syllable) words that end in a consonant preceded by a single vowel letter, double the consonant before a suffix beginning with vowel.
Example: big – bigger, run – runner, hid – hidden, rob – robber, sad – sadden, beg – begger.
Rule:2
Words with more than one-syllable follow the Rule1 if the word is accented on the last consonant.
Example: admit – admitted, begin – beginning, occur – occurred, regret – regrettable, permit – permitted, control – controller, refer – referred, commit – committed
Exception: suffer – suffering, differ – differed, credit – credited, visit – visited, limit – limited, develop – developed, offer – offered
Rule:3
If the words end in consonant preceded by two vowel letters, the consonant does not double before any suffix.
Example: sweet – sweeten, beat – beating, read – reader
Rule:4
The final ‘y’ of a word changes to ‘i’ before any suffix (except – ing, ish) if it is preceded by a consonant. But ‘y’ remains unchanged before any suffix if it is preceded by a vowel.
Example: apply – applied, carry – carried, accompany – accompaniment, study – studious, fancy – fanciful, fury – furious, merry – merriment, happy – happiness, marry – marriage
In case of ‘ing’ or ‘ish’ ending, ‘y’ does not change.
Example: baby – babyish, copy – copying, try – trying
Rule:5
Words end with ‘y’ does not change to ‘i’ if it is preceded by vowel.
Example: buy – buyer, journey- journeyed, betray – betrayal, buy – buyer
Exception: say – said, day – daily, pay – paid, gay – gaiety
Rule:6
When the combination of ‘ie’ is pronounced as ‘ee’, then ‘i’ is put before ‘e’; except after ‘c’ when the combination of ‘ei’ is used.
Example: belief, achieve, brief, grief, mischief, relieve, relief, thief, piece, grieve, priest
‘C’ before the combination of ‘ei’
Example: receive, conceit, perceive, deceit, receipt, conceive
Rule:7
If the combination of ‘ie’ does not pronounce as ‘ee’, then ‘e’ is put before ‘i’
Example: foreign, height, leisure, reign, sovereign, weight, neighbour, veil, feign
Rule:8
If a word ends in ‘l’ preceded by only one vowel, the ‘l’ is doubled before adding suffix beginning with vowel.
Example: rebel – rebellious, jewel – jeweller, quarrel- quarrelled, impel – impelled
Rule:9
Words that end with silent ‘e’, drop the ‘e’ before adding suffix.
Example: live – living, move – moved, hope – hoping, due – duly, argue – argument
Words Commonly Confused In Spelling
Here is a list of words which are commonly misspelt. These are frequently used in day to day life. Even these are tested in the examination. So all these should be followed carefully to get the correct spelling of these very useful words. So improve the spelling of these very useful words.
(A) Choose the correct spellings:
(1) (a) abundance (b) abandance (c) abundence (d) abundunce
(2) (a) hinderanc (b) hindrance (c) hinderence (d) hinderance
(3) (a) omitted (b) ommited (c) ommitted (d) ometed
(4) (a) aggresion (b) agresion (c) aggression (d) agression
(5) (a) adolescence (b) adolesence (c) adoleiscene (d) adolascene
(6) (a) proffessional (b) proffesional (c) profesional (d) professional
(7) (a) quarreled (b) quaralled (c) quarralled (d) quarrelled
(8) (a) appology (b) apology (c) apollogy (d) appollogy
(9) (a) seperated (b) sepereted (c) separated (d) seprated
(10) (a) humrous (b) humorus (c) humorous (d) humourous
Answers: 1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (d) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (c)
(B) Choose the correct spellings:
(1) (a) consentious (b) conscientious (c) conscientous (d) consientious
(2) (a) anniversary (b) aniversary (c) aniverssary (d) anniverssary
(3) (a) appreciation (b) apreciation (c) apretiation (d) apprecattion
(4) (a) gazatte (b) gazette (c) gazete (d) gazet
(5) (a) miscellaneous (b) miscelaneous (c) miscelanous (d) mislanious
(6) (a) accomodation (b) acomodation (c) acommodation (d) accommodation
(7) (a) persuit (b) pursuit (c) pursuet (d) persuet
(8) (a) appearance (b) apparance (c) apearance (d) appearence
(9) (a) beurocracy (b) burocracy (c) bureaucracy (d) buroocracy
(10) (a) catelogue (b) cattelogue (c) catlogue (d) catalogue
Answers: 1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (d)
(C) Choose the correct spellings:
(1) (a) deceive (b) decieve (c) diceive (d) dicieve
(2) (a) aceleration (b) accelration (c) acselration (d) acceleration
(3) (a) cigarette (b) ciggarette (c) cigiratte (d) cigarete
(4) colleague (b) coleague (c) collegue (d) colegue
(5) (a) ocassion (b) occasion (c) occassion (d) occession
(6) (a) schedule (b) schidule (c) schedulle (d) schdule
(7) acquisetion (b) acquestion (c) acquistion (d) acquisition
(8) (a) guarentee (b) guarantee (c) guarante (d) guarantee
(9) (a) suprintendent (b) suprintendant (c) superintendant (d) superintendent
(10) (a) acquantance (b) acqueantance (c) acquaintance (d) acquaintence
Answers: 1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (d) 10. (c)
(D) Choose the correct spellings:
(1) (a) ecstacy (b) ecstasy (c) estasy (d) ecstesy
(2) (a) receipte (b) receipt (c) reciept (d) recipt
(3) (a) hypocrisy (b) hypocresy (c) hipocrisy (d) hipocracy
(4) (a) sevaral (b) several (c) savaral (d) severel
(5) (a) diagnosis (b) diegnosis (c) diagenosis (d) diagnoses
(6) (a) interupt (b) interrupt (c) intrupt (d) intereupt
(7) (a) assistence (b) assistance (c) asistence (d) asisstence
(8) (a) benefecient (b) beneficient (c) benificient (d) beneficent
(9) (a) convenience (b) conveniance (c) convinience (d) conveneance
(10) (a) exaggerate (b) exeggerate (c) exagerate (d) exaggarate
Answers: 1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (b) 8. (d) 9. (a) 10. (a)
(E) Choose the correct spellings:
(1) (a) indespensable (b) indespansable (c) indispensable (d) indispansable
(2) (a) miscellaneous (b) miscelaneous (c) misscellaneous (d) miscellanious
(3) (a) maintinance (b) maintenance (c) meintenance (d) maintenence
(4) (a) physique (b) phisique (c) physic (d) physiquee
(5) (a) techinique (b) teachnique (c) technique (d) technic
(6) (a) mediterranean (b) mediteranean (c) medaterranean (d) Mediterranean
(7) (a) curriculam (b) curicullam (c) curriculam (d) curriculum
(8) (a) endeavour (b) endevour (c) endavour (d) endeavur
(9) (a) privelege (b) privilege (c) privalege (d) previlege
(10) (a) mischievious (b) mischivious (c) mischievous (d) mischiveous
Answers: 1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (c) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (c)