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The endings

–cious or –tious
Handy hint: If the root word ends in ‘ce’,
the sound is usually spelt as –cious.

-cious -tious
vicious ambitious
precious cautious
conscious fictitious
delicious infectious
malicious nutritious
suspicious

Exception to the rule: anxious


The endings
–cial or –tial
Handy hint: –cial is usually used after a vowel letter and
–tial is usually used after a consonant letter.

-cial -tial
official partial
special confidential
artificial essential

Exceptions to the rule: initial, financial,


commercial and provincial
The endings –ant and
-ance/–ancy
Handy hint: -ant and –ance/-ancy are normally used
if there is a related word ending in –ation.

-ant -ance/-ancy -ation


observant observance observation
expectant expectance expectation
hesitant hesitance hesitation
tolerant tolerance toleration

Exceptions to the rule: You can have


assistant, assistance but not assistation.
The endings –ent
and –ence/-ency
Handy hint: -ent and –ence/-ency are usually used if there
is a soft /c/, soft /g/ or /qu/ sound before it in the word.

-ent -ence/-ency
innocent innocence
decent decency
frequent frequency
confident confidence
independent independence

Exceptions to the rule: obedient


turns into obedience
The endings –able/
-ably and –ible/-ibly
Handy hints: -able/-ably are usually used if there is a related
word ending in –ation. –ible/-ibly is usually used if a complete
root word can’t be heard before it.

-able/-ably -ible/-ibly
adorable/adorably possible/possibly
applicable/applicably horrible/horribly
considerable/considerably terrible/terribly
tolerable/tolerably visible/visibly
incredible/incredibly

Exceptions to the rule: Changeable and noticeable don’t have


related words which end in –ation. In the case of sensible, the
complete root word can be heard before the –ible ending.
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel
letters to words ending in –fer

Handy hints: The ‘r’ is doubled if the –fer is still


stressed when the ending is added. The ‘r’ is not
doubled if the –fer is no longer stressed.

r is doubled r is not doubled


referring/referred/referral reference/referee
preferring/preferred preference
transferring/transferred transference
Using a hyphen (-)

Handy hint: Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to


a root word, especially if the prefix ends in a vowel
letter and the root word also begins with one.

Example Words
co-ordinate
re-enter
co-operate
co-own
Words with the long /e/ sound
spelled ‘ei’ after the letter ‘c’

Handy hint: the ‘i before e except after c’ rule applies to words


where the sound is spelt by ‘ei’.

Example Words
deceive
conceive
receive
perceive
ceiling

Exceptions to the rule: Protein, caffeine, seize all have the ‘ei’
spelling pattern but not after the letter ‘c’.
Words containing the
letter string ‘ough’
Handy hint: ‘ough’ is one of the trickiest spellings in
English. It can be used to spell a number of different sounds.

-ough as /uff/ -ough as /or/ -ough as /off/


rough ought cough
tough bought
enough thought
nought -ough as /oa/
brought
-ough as /oo/ though
fought although
through dough

-ough as /uh/ -ough as /ow/


thorough plough
borough bough
Words containing
‘silent’ letters

Fantastic fact: Some letters which are no longer


sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago.
‘Knight’ used to be pronounced with a ‘k’ sound
before the ‘n’!

Example Words
doubt
island
lamb
solemn
thistle
knight
Homophones and other words
that are often confused

Handy hint: Homophones are words which have the same or


similar pronunciation but different meanings.

Example words:
aisle/isle descent/dissent past /passed
aloud/allowed desert/dessert precede/proceed
affect/effect draft/draught principal/
altar/alter father/farther principle

ascent/assent guessed/guest prophet/profit

bridal/bridle heard/herd stationary/


stationery
cereal/serial led/lead
steal/steel
compliment/ morning/
complement mourning wary/weary
who’s/whose
Handy hint: try to memorise
Words five of these words per week
and you will know them all by
the end of the year.
accommodate committee disastrous identity parliament shoulder
accompany communicate embarrass immediate(ly) persuade signature
according community environment individual physical sincere(ly)
achieve competition equip (–ped, –ment) interfere prejudice soldier
aggressive conscience* especially interrupt privilege stomach
amateur conscious* exaggerate language profession sufficient
ancient controversy excellent leisure programme suggest
apparent convenience existence lightning pronunciation symbol
appreciate correspond explanation marvellous queue system
attached criticise familiar mischievous recognise temperature
available (critic + ise) foreign muscle recommend thorough
average curiosity forty necessary relevant twelfth
awkward definite frequently neighbour restaurant variety
bargain desperate government nuisance rhyme vegetable
bruise determined guarantee occupy rhythm vehicle
category develop harass occur sacrifice yacht
cemetery dictionary hindrance opportunity secretary

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