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Spelling Rules and Commonly Misspelled Words Flashcards

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Embarass or Embarrass

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Embarrass

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Apparent or Aparent

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Apparent

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Forseable or Foreseeable

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Foreseeable

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Sucess or Success

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Success

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Immediate or Imediate

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Immediate

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liaise or liase

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liaise

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Mispelled or Misspelled

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Misspelled

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Harrass or Harass

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Harass

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Curiosity or Curiousity

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Curiosity

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Neccessary or Necessary

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Necessary

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Tommorrow or Tomorrow

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Tomorrow

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Occasion or Occassion

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Occasion

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Parallel or Parallell

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Parallel

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Humourous or Humorous

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Humorous

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Ommision or Omission

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Omission

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Disappoint or Dissapoint

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Disappoint

17
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Brocolli or Broccoli

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Broccoli

18
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Carribean or Caribbean

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Caribbean

19
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Recommend or Reccomend

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Recommend

20
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Spelling Rules:
The doubling up rule:
Single syllable?
Multi-syllable?

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Single syllable:
Double the final consonant in single-syllable words that end in a single consonant after a single vowel when adding a vowel suffix (e.g. run → running).

Multi-syllable:
The last letter is only doubled if the syllable before the vowel suffix is stressed.*

*Some words do not fit this pattern, such as appealing.

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Irregular plurals:
Words that end in “-us” generally take the plural ending …
Note?

Examples:
Locus
Radius
Cactus
Fungus
Octopus

Exceptions?

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-i
Note: Sometimes both “-i” and “-es” endings are acceptable.

Examples:
Loci
Radii/Radiuses
Cacti/Cactuses
Fungi/Funguses
Octopi/Octopuses

Exceptions:
virus/viruses
bonus/bonuses

22
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Irregular plurals:
Words that end in “-on” or “-om” generally take the plural ending …

Note?

Examples:
Phenomenon
Criterion
Referendum
Stadium

Exception?

A

-a
Note: Sometimes both “-a” and “-s” endings are acceptable. Often times, the -a ending is considered archaic.

Examples:
Phenomena
Criteria
Referenda/Referendums
Stadia/Stadiums

Exception:
More recently coined terms that use -on form in the singular (e.g. electron) almost always take an -s in the plural (e.g. electrons).

23
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Irregular plurals:
Words that end in “-f” or “-fe” generally take the plural ending …

Examples:
Wife
Hoof
Wolf
Thief
Leaf
Knife

Exceptions?

A

-ves

Examples:
Wives
Hooves
Wolves
Thieves
Leaves
Knives

Exceptions:
reefs
chiefs
cuffs
beliefs

24
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Irregular plurals:
Words that end in “-is” generally take the plural ending …

Examples:
Axis
Basis
Hypothesis
Crisis
Analysis

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-es

Examples:
Axes
Bases
Hypotheses
Crises
Analyses

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