Some useful spelling rules --- 16
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👉🏻 When the word ends in a consonant
If the accent falls on the last syllable, the consonant is doubled to form the past tense.

🌷So we have
Occur –> occurred
Transfer –> transferred

When the word ends in a short vowel + consonant, the final consonant is not usually doubled to form the past tense.

🌷Therefore
Offer –> offered (NOT Offerred)
Budget –> budgeted

🍃 Short monosyllabic words always double their final consonant.

🌷Examples are:
Shop –> shopping
Let –> letting
Cut –> cutting

🌻‘ie’ and ‘ei’
The general rule is ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’
Examples are:
Siege, believe, friends

🌞But
Receive, deceive, ceiling (after ‘c’, we use ‘e’ before ‘I’)

🍃 There are however several exceptions to this rule. Examples are: reign, heir, seize, weird. As you can see, in all of these words, the letter ‘e’ goes before the letter ‘i’.

🌼Dis and mis
Never double the ‘s’ of these prefixes. In some words, you may notice a second ‘s’, but remember that it is the first letter of the next syllable.

🌼So we have
Dismiss (NOT Dissmiss)
Misplace
Misunderstand
Dispel

🌺Se and Ce
Se and sy are usually verb endings and ce and cy are usually noun endings. So the following words are verbs: license, practise, advise, prophesy

🍃 And the following words are nouns: licence, practice, prophecy, advice

🌍The word promise is an exception to this rule. Although it ends in –se, it is a noun.
Note that this rule does not hold good when verb and noun are not spelt alike.

🍁Us and ous
Nouns end in ‘us’. Adjectives end in ‘ous’.
So we have:
⛄️Nouns: census, phosphorus, genius
⛄️Adjectives: jealous, unanimous, tremendous
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