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ENGLISH SPELLING RULES(PART4

5. Adding consonant suffixes is easy. You just add them. (Of course you must change a final y to i before you add any suffix.)

peace - peaceful  

harm - harmless  

age - ageless

pity - pitiful 

child - childhood

rifle - riflery

/sh/

When this sound occurs before a vowel suffix, it is spelled ti, si, or ci

partial 

cautious 

patient 

vacation

special 

deficient 

suspicion 

suction

inertia 

delicious 

ratio 

pension

musician 

physician 

optician 

quotient

electrician 

nutrition 

statistician 

expulsion

/ee/ before a vowel suffix

When /ee/ precedes a vowel suffix, it is usually spelled with the letter i

Indian 

obvious 

medium

ingredient 

zodiac 

material



Spelling Determined by Word Meaning

1. Mist and missed sound alike, as do band and banned. To determine the spelling, remember that -ed is a past-tense tending

  1. The mist drifted into the harbor
  2. I nearly missed my bus
  3. The movie was banned in Boston
  4. The band played on

2. The endings of dentist and finest sound alike. Deciding which one to use can be tricky. One rule helps but doesn't cover all cases:

  1. --ist is a suffix meaning someone who does something
       artist    -   machinist    -   druggist
  2. --est is the ending used on superlative adjectives:
       finest    -   sweetest    -   longest

3. The sounds at the end of musician and condition sound alike. but....

  1. cian always means a person, where...
  2. tion or sion are never used for people


4. How do you tell whether to use tion or sion?

  1. If the root word ends in /t/, use -tion: complete, completion
  2. If the root word ends in /s/ or /d/, use sion: extend, extension
    supress, supression
  3. If the sound of the last syllable is the "heavy" sound of /zhun/ rather than the light sound, /shun/, use s: confusion, vision, adhesion

Exception: The ending, --mit becomes -mission:

permit - permission 

omit - omission

submit - submission 

commit - commission


The Hiss

1. The letter s between vowels sounds like a z

nose 

result 

noise

present 

partisan 

tease

preside 

resound 

reserve


2. The light "hissy" sound is spelled with either ss or ce. Predictably, ss, like any proper doubled consonant, follows accented short vowels. Soft c is used anywhere else. (A soft c is one that is followed by e, i, or y)

notice 

reticent 

massive

bicycle 

recent 

gossip

russet 

rejoice 

essence

vessel 

discuss 

pass


3. The plural ending is always spelled with a single letter s unless you can hear a new syllable on the plural word. In that case, use -es

loss, losses

bank, banks

 twitch, twitches

tree, trees

box, boxes

list, lists 

judge, judges

 


No compendium of spelling rules would be complete with the most important rule of all:
WHEN IN DOUBT, ASK (or look it up)

 
 
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ENGLISH SPELLING RULES(PART3

Words that end in the letter y must have the y changed to i before adding any suffix

body - bodily 

marry - marriage 

many - manifold 

family -  familiar 

happy - happiness

puppy - puppies

beauty - beautiful 

vary - various  

company - companion

fury - furious 

plenty - plentiful 

merry - merriment


2. In words that end in a silent e you must drop it before you add a vowel suffix. The silent e is no longer needed to make the preceding vowel long as the incoming vowel will do the trick

ride - riding 

cure - curable 

use - usual 

age - aging 

fame - famous 

force - forcing 

refuse -  refusal 

slice - slicing

pure - purity 

ice - icicle

nose - nosy 

convince - convincing

globe - global 

race - racist 

pole - polar 

offense - offensive


 3. Words that end in an accented short or modified vowel sound must have the final consonant doubled to protect that sound when you add a vowel suffix

Quebec - Quebecker

remit - remittance 

confer - conferring 

refer - referred 

upset - upsetting 

shellac - shellacking

occur - occurred 

concur- concurrent

 

Note that this doubling is not done if the accent is not on the last syllable. If the word ends in a schwa, there is no need to "protect" it

open - opening 

organ - organize 

focus - focused

refer - referee 

 

4. Normally you drop a silent e before adding a vowel suffix. However, if the word ends in -ce or -ge and the incoming vowel is an a, o, or u, you cannot cavalierly toss out that silent e. It is not useless: it is keeping its left-hand letter soft, and your a, o, or u will not do that. Thus:

manage - manageable 

peace - peaceable 

courage - courageous 

revenge - vengeance

surge - surgeon 

change - changeable 

notice - noticeable 

outrage - outrageous


Gorgeous George bludgeoned a pigeon noticeably! Tsk

 
 
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ENGLISH SPELLING RULES(PART2

The letter, k, follows any other sound

milk 

soak 

make 

bark

tank 

peek 

bike 

cork

tusk 

hawk 

duke 

perk


The Sound, /j/
The sound, /j/ is spelled in three ways: j ge and dge

1. The letter j is usually used if the sound if followed by an a, o, or u

just 

jam 

jungle 

injure 

major 

adjacent 

jog 

jar 

Japan 

jury 

job 

Benjamin

adjust 

jacket 

jolly 

jaguar 

jump 

jalousie

 

2. Since the letter g has the soft sound of /j/ when it is followed by an e, i, or y, it is usually used in this situation:

gentle 

ginger 

aging 

algebra

Egyptologist 

gem 

origin 

gym

 

2. If /j/ follows a short vowel sound, it is usually spelled with dge. This is because the letter j, is never doubled in English.

badge 

ridge 

dodge 

partridge 

gadget

judge 

edge 

smudge 

judgement 

budget


The Sound, /ch/

The sound /ch/ has two spellings: tch after a short vowel, ch anywhere else

witch 

sketch 

botch 

satchel

catch 

hatchet 

kitchen 

escutcheon

Exceptions:
Which, rich, much, such, touch, bachelor, attach, sandwich, and ostrich

The Sound, /kw/
This sound is ALWAYS spelled with the letters, qu, never anything else

Using -le

Words ending in -le, such as little, require care. If the vowel sound is short, there must be two consonants between the vowel and the -le. Otherwise, one consonant is enough.

li tt le

ha nd le

ti ck le

a mp le

bo tt le

pu zz le

cru mb le

a ng le

 

bugle

able

poodle

dawdle 

needle 

idle 

people

 

Odds and Ends

1. The consonants, v, j, k, w, and x are never doubled
2. No normal English words ends with the letter v. A final /v/ is always spelled with
ve, no matter what the preceding vowel sound may be

have 

give 

sleeve 

cove 

receive 

love 

connive 

brave 

 

Adding Endings

There are two kinds of suffixes, those that begin with a vowel and those that begin with a consonant. As usual, the spelling problems occur with the vowels
 

Vowel Suffixes

 

Consonant Suffixes

- - - age

 - - -ist

 - - - ness

- - - cess

- - - ant 

- - - ish

 - - -less

- - -ment

- - -ance

 - - -ing

 - - -ly

 - - -ty

- - - al

- - -ar

 - - -ful

 - - -ry

 - - -ism

 - - -o

 - - -hood

 - - -ward

- - -able 

- - -on

 - - -wise

 

- - -an

- - -ous

 

 

- - - a

 - - -or

 

 

- - -es

 - - -ual

 

 

- - -ed

 - - -unt

 

 

- - -er

- - -um

 

 

- - -est

  - - -us

 

 

- - -y

 - - -ive

 

 

 
 
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ENGLISH SPELLING RULES(PART 1
Short and Long Vowels

1. To spell a short vowel sound, only one letter is needed
 
                 at           red            it            hot           up

2. To spell a long sound you must add a second vowel. The second may be next to the first, in the VVC pattern (boat, maid, cue, etc.) or it may be separated from the first one by a consonant in the VCV pattern (made, ride, tide, etc.). If the second vowel is separated from the first by two spaces, it does not affect the first one. This is the VCCV pattern in which the first vowel remains short. Thus, doubling a consonant can be called "protecting" a short vowel because it prevents an incoming vowel from getting close enough to the first one to change its sound from short to long

          maid,  made,  but  madder;            dine,  diner,  but dinner

Spelling the Sound /k/

This sound can be spelled in any one of four ways

1. c     2. cc     3. k        4. ck

1. The single letter, c , is the most common spelling. It may be used anywhere in a word:

cat

corn

actor

victim

direct

mica

scat 

bacon 

public 

cactus 

inflict 

pecan

 

2. Sometimes the letter c must be doubled to cc to protect the sound of a short vowel

stucco 

baccalaureate 

hiccups

Mecca 

tobacco 

buccaneer

occupy

raccoon 

succulent 

 

3. The letter k is substituted for c if /k/ is followed by an e, i, or y

kin 

make 

sketch 

poker 

kind 

risky

skin 

token 

skill 

keep 

liking 

flaky

 

(Boring examples? How about kyphosis, kylix, keratosis, and dyskinesia?

4. Similarly, the spelling ck, is substituted for cc if the following letter is an e, i, or y

lucky 

picking 

rocking 

finicky

blackest 

mackintosh 

frolicked 

ducking

Kentucky 

picnicking 

stocking 

Quebecker


5. The letters, k and ck are more than substitutes for c and cc. They are used to spell /k/ at the end of a monosyllable. The digraph, ck, ALWAYS follows a short vowel

sack 

duck 

lick 

stick 

wreck 

clock

 

 
 
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ENGLISH SPELLING RULES
Short and Long Vowels

 To spell a short vowel sound, only one letter is needed


                 at           red            it            hot           up

To spell a long sound you must add a second vowel. The second may be next to the first, in the VVC pattern (boat, maid, cue, etc.) or it may be separated from the first one by a consonant in the VCV pattern (made, ride, tide, etc.). If the second vowel is separated from the first by two spaces, it does not affect the first one. This is the VCCV pattern in which the first vowel remains short. Thus, doubling a consonant can be called "protecting" a short vowel because it prevents an incoming vowel from getting close enough to the first one to change its sound from short to long

          maid,  made,  but  madder;            dine,  diner,  but dinner.

Spelling the Sound /k/

This sound can be spelled in any one of four ways

 c     2. cc     3. k        4. ck

 The single letter, c , is the most common spelling. It may be used anywhere in a word

cat

corn

actor

victim

direct

mica

scat 

bacon 

public 

cactus 

inflict 

pecan

 

 Sometimes the letter c must be doubled to cc to protect the sound of a short vowel

stucco 

baccalaureate 

hiccups

Mecca 

tobacco 

buccaneer

occupy

raccoon 

succulent 

 

 The letter k is substituted for c if /k/ is followed by an e, i, or y

kin 

make 

sketch 

poker 

kind 

risky

skin 

token 

skill 

keep 

liking 

flaky

 

(Boring examples? How about kyphosis, kylix, keratosis, and dyskinesia?)

 Similarly, the spelling ck, is substituted for cc if the following letter is an e, i, or y

lucky 

picking 

rocking 

finicky

blackest 

mackintosh 

frolicked 

ducking

Kentucky 

picnicking 

stocking 

Quebecker


he letters, k and ck are more than substitutes for c and cc. They are used to spell /k/ at the end of a monosyllable. The digraph, ck, ALWAYS follows a short vowel

sack 

duck 

lick 

stick 

wreck 

clock

 

(Forget about yak. Your student will never need it.)

The letter, k, follows any other sound

milk 

soak 

make 

bark

tank 

peek 

bike 

cork

tusk 

hawk 

duke 

perk


The Sound, /j/
The sound, /j/ is spelled in three ways: j ge and dge

 The letter j is usually used if the sound if followed by an a, o, or u

just 

jam 

jungle 

injure 

major 

adjacent 

jog 

jar 

Japan 

jury 

job 

Benjamin

adjust 

jacket 

jolly 

jaguar 

jump 

jalousie

 

Since the letter g has the soft sound of /j/ when it is followed by an e, i, or y, it is usually used in this situation

gentle 

ginger 

aging 

algebra

Egyptologist 

gem 

origin 

gym

 

 If /j/ follows a short vowel sound, it is usually spelled with dge. This is because the letter j, is never doubled in English

badge 

ridge 

dodge 

partridge 

gadget

judge 

edge 

smudge 

judgement 

budget


The Sound, /ch/

The sound /ch/ has two spellings: tch after a short vowel, ch anywhere else

witch 

sketch 

botch 

satchel

catch 

hatchet 

kitchen 

escutcheon

Exceptions:

Which, rich, much, such, touch, bachelor, attach, sandwich, and ostrich

The Sound, /kw/
This sound is ALWAYS spelled with the letters, qu, never anything else

Using -le

Words ending in -le, such as little, require care. If the vowel sound is short, there must be two consonants between the vowel and the -le. Otherwise, one consonant is enough.

li tt le

ha nd le

ti ck le

a mp le

bo tt le

pu zz le

cru mb le

a ng le

 

bugle

able

poodle

dawdle 

needle 

idle 

people

 

Odds and Ends

The consonants, v, j, k, w, and x are never doubled2. No normal English words ends with the letter v. A final /v/ is always spelled with ve, no matter what the preceding vowel sound may be

have 

give 

sleeve 

cove 

receive 

love 

connive 

brave 

 

Adding Endings

There are two kinds of suffixes, those that begin with a vowel and those that begin with a consonant. As usual, the spelling problems occur with the vowels 

Vowel Suffixes

 

Consonant Suffixes

- - - age

 - - -ist

 - - - ness

- - - cess

- - - ant 

- - - ish

 - - -less

- - -ment

- - -ance

 - - -ing

 - - -ly

 - - -ty

- - - al

- - -ar

 - - -ful

 - - -ry

 - - -ism

 - - -o

 - - -hood

 - - -ward

- - -able 

- - -on

 - - -wise

 

- - -an

- - -ous

 

 

- - - a

 - - -or

 

 

- - -es

 - - -ual

 

 

- - -ed

 - - -unt

 

 

- - -er

- - -um

 

 

- - -est

  - - -us

 

 

- - -y

 - - -ive

 

 


Words that end in the letter y must have the y changed to i before adding any suffix

body - bodily 

marry - marriage 

many - manifold 

family -  familiar 

happy - happiness

puppy - puppies

beauty - beautiful 

vary - various  

company - companion

fury - furious 

plenty - plentiful 

merry - merriment


In words that end in a silent e you must drop it before you add a vowel suffix. The silent e is no longer needed to make the preceding vowel long as the incoming vowel will do the trick

ride - riding 

cure - curable 

use - usual 

age - aging 

fame - famous 

force - forcing 

refuse -  refusal 

slice - slicing

pure - purity 

ice - icicle

nose - nosy 

convince - convincing

globe - global 

race - racist 

pole - polar 

offense - offensive


Words that end in an accented short or modified vowel sound must have the final consonant doubled to protect that sound when you add a vowel suffix

Quebec - Quebecker

remit - remittance 

confer - conferring 

refer - referred 

upset - upsetting 

shellac - shellacking

occur - occurred 

concur- concurrent

 

Note that this doubling is not done if the accent is not on the last syllable. If the word ends in a schwa, there is no need to "protect" it

open - opening 

organ - organize 

focus - focused

refer - referee 

 

 Normally you drop a silent e before adding a vowel suffix. However, if the word ends in -ce or -ge and the incoming vowel is an a, o, or u, you cannot cavalierly toss out that silent e. It is not useless: it is keeping its left-hand letter soft, and your a, o, or u will not do that. Thus

manage - manageable 

peace - peaceable 

courage - courageous 

revenge - vengeance

surge - surgeon 

change - changeable 

notice - noticeable 

outrage - outrageous


Gorgeous George bludgeoned a pigeon noticeably! Tsk


 Adding consonant suffixes is easy. You just add them. (Of course you must change a final y to i before you add any suffix.)

peace - peaceful  

harm - harmless  

age - ageless

pity - pitiful 

child - childhood

rifle - riflery

/sh/

When this sound occurs before a vowel suffix, it is spelled ti, si, or ci

partial 

cautious 

patient 

vacation

special 

deficient 

suspicion 

suction

inertia 

delicious 

ratio 

pension

musician 

physician 

optician 

quotient

electrician 

nutrition 

statistician 

expulsion

/ee/ before a vowel suffix

When /ee/ precedes a vowel suffix, it is usually spelled with the letter i

Indian 

obvious 

medium

ingredient 

zodiac 

material



Spelling Determined by Word Meaning

Mist and missed sound alike, as do band and banned. To determine the spelling, remember that -ed is a past-tense tending

  1. The mist drifted into the harbor
  2. I nearly missed my bus
  3. The movie was banned in Boston
  4. The band played on

 The endings of dentist and finest sound alike. Deciding which one to use can be tricky. One rule helps but doesn't cover all cases

  1. --ist is a suffix meaning someone who does something   artist    -   machinist    -   druggist
  2. --est is the ending used on superlative adjectives   finest    -   sweetest    -   longest

The sounds at the end of musician and condition sound alike. but....

  1. cian always means a person, where...
  2. tion or sion are never used for people


 How do you tell whether to use tion or sion

  1. If the root word ends in /t/, use -tion: complete, completion
  2. If the root word ends in /s/ or /d/, use sion: extend, extension
    supress, supression
  3. If the sound of the last syllable is the "heavy" sound of /zhun/ rather than the light sound, /shun/, use s: confusion, vision, adhesion

Exception: The ending, --mit becomes -mission

permit - permission 

omit - omission

submit - submission 

commit - commission


The Hiss

The letter s between vowels sounds like a z

nose 

result 

noise

present 

partisan 

tease

preside 

resound 

reserve


 The light "hissy" sound is spelled with either ss or ce. Predictably, ss, like any proper doubled consonant, follows accented short vowels. Soft c is used anywhere else. (A soft c is one that is followed by e, i, or y)

notice 

reticent 

massive

bicycle 

recent 

gossip

russet 

rejoice 

essence

vessel 

discuss 

pass


 The plural ending is always spelled with a single letter s unless you can hear a new syllable on the plural word. In that case, use -es

loss, losses

bank, banks

 twitch, twitches

tree, trees

box, boxes

list, lists 

judge, judges

 


No compendium of spelling rules would be complete with the most important rule of all:
WHEN IN DOUBT, ASK (or look it up)

 

 
 
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  «جنس اسم»

منظور از جنس اسم، مذکر يا مؤنث بودن آن است. جنس اسم از نظر تشخيص و انتخاب

 ضمير و يا صفت ملکی مربوطه از اهميت زيادی برخوردار است.

نمونه‌هايی از اسامی مذکر و مؤنث:

مذکر:
خوک نر ................................ pig
خروس ................................. Cock
سگ نر ................................ Dog
اردک نر ................................ Drake
اسب نر ............................... Horse
زنبور نر ................................ Drone
شاه .................................... King
عمو ـ دايی ........................... uncle

مؤنث:
خوک ماده ............................ Sow
مرغ .................................... Hen
سگ ماده ............................ Biteh
اردک ماده ............................ Duck
اسب ماده ............................ Mare
زنبور ماده ............................. Bee
ملکه .................................... Queen
عمه ـ خاله ........................... Aunt

۱ـ بعضی اوقات برای ساختن جنس اسم مؤنث از مذکر به آخر آن «ess» اضافه می‌کنيم،

 لازم به ذکر است که اين قاعده در همه جا کاربرد ندارد.

به مثال‌های زير توجه کنيد:
هنرپيشه‌ی مرد ........................ Actor = هنرپيشه‌ی زن ...................... Actoress
ميزبان(مرد) ............................. Host = ميزبان(زن) ............................ Hostess
جادوگر مرد .............................. Sorcerer = جادوگر زن ........................ Sorcereress
ببر نر ...................................... Tiger = ببر ماده ................................ Tigeress

۲ـ بعضی از اسم‌ها با اينکه دارای علايم ظاهری مؤنث بودن نيستند ولی بطور قراردادی مؤنث

به حساب می‌آيند.

مانند:
ستاره ................................... Star
کشتی .................................. Ship
شهر ..................................... City
هواپيما ................................. airplane
سياره ................................... planet
کشور ................................... Country

* در اين صورت ضمير يا صفت ملکی آن‌ها نيز معمولا مؤنث است:

  .This airplane last many of her passengers in the air burts


اين هواپيما در يک انفجار هوايی تعداد زيادی از مسافران خود را از دست داد.
 
 
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نکته بیست وهفتم: زمان حال استمراري

وجود کلمات هشدار دهنده در جمله مي تواند به حال استمراري نوشته شود و عبارتند از:

(Look! Be quiet! Listen! Be careful!)

 

1- Be quiet! The baby ……

a) is sleeping *      b) sleeps            c) had slept          d) sleeps

 

2- Look! The man ………. after the train.

a) runs            b) has run             c) run              d) is running *

 

3- Look! The cat ……….. To climb that tall tree.

a) try                b) tries             c) is trying *          d) to try

 

4- Listen! Some one ……… at the door.

a) is knocking *            b) knock        c) knocks          d) to knock

 

 

نکته بیست و هشتم: ماضي نقلي

اين زمان براي بيان عملي است که در وقت نامشخص در گذشته آغاز شده و اثر آن تا زمان حال باقي است.

طرز ساختن اين زمان: since و for قيد زماني + قسمت سوم فعل+ have و has + فاعل

مبدأ زمان: since، طول زمان: for

1- He is tired, because he …….. football since afternoon.

a) have played       b) has played *     c) had played         d) played

 

جمله اي که قبل از because قرار گرفته زمان حال ساده است و جمله اي که بعد از because قرار مي گيرد بايد ماضي نقلي باشد.

2- John is unhappy because he ……….his money.

a) lost           b) have lost           c) has lost *          d) lose

 

3- She …….. here since 1948.

a) worked                   b) have worked     

c) has worked *           d) was working

 

4- I ……… in Greece since 1976.

a) have lived *          b) lived           c) has lived         d) was living