Spelling rules in English

 14 Spelling rules in English

There are more than 7000 languages in the world. Every language is unique and has its own importance and significance. Every language has the influence of its people on it that's why most of the time the pronunciation of a word is quite different from its spelling. 

Especially English is such a diverse language where we see such change. Knowing the spelling rules can help us to learn how to do and use those words properly because we cannot memorize the whole dictionary.  When words like ate and eight, or add or ad have the same pronunciation but different meanings and spellings we as  Second Language learners just become confused but in this Article, you will learn the most important rules that will help you to tackle that problem.

 Use of Ei and Ie:

The use of Ei and Ie is one of the most challenging ones because while adding these alphabets we just need clarification. It doesn't matter that whether we are fluent in English or not. For words with ''C'' we use ''E and I'' with them. 

For Example:

• Conceive
• Receive
• Receipt
• Deceit

For those words where ei is pronounced as ''a'' ''E and I'' is used

For Example:

• Neighbor
• Neigh
• Eight
• Break/ breik

While for all other words, we use Ie. 

For  Example;

• Movie
• Friend
• Series
• Cookie
• Rookie
• Pie
• Lie

Silent Letters:

Some letters are silent in words some of them are a, b, c, g, h, k, l, n, t, w, and v. Such silent letters create confusion while writing or learning a word. Following are the examples of it. 

Use of Prefix:

First of all, adding prefixes before any words can help us in this stance because, with the help of prefixes we don't have to change the whole spelling of the word. We just have to add a prefix and the word is changed easily.  Prefixes like in, un, dis, im, anti, over, un, mis, re, pre, etc are examples. We have given some major examples of these prefixes below;

Use of Suffix:

While using suffixes we should be more cautious because adding suffixes will change the meanings. It is not necessary that adding a suffix will change the meaning also it can just be used to enhance the meanings.

English with the same Sounds:

Some words in English have the same phonetic sound with different spelling and meanings. Homonyms belong to this category.

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