Spelling Rules in English


🔴 Rule 1: Plural बनाने का नियम (Adding S / ES)

✅ Formula:

Noun + s (सामान्य शब्द)
Noun + es (s, ss, sh, ch, x, z पर खत्म हो)

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Book → Books
  2. Pen → Pens
  3. Boy → Boys
  4. Girl → Girls
  5. Car → Cars
  6. Bus → Buses
  7. Box → Boxes
  8. Watch → Watches
  9. Dish → Dishes
  10. Class → Classes

❌ Exceptions:

  • Man → Men
  • Child → Children
  • Foot → Feet

🔵 Rule 2: Noun ending with Y

✅ Formula:

Consonant + Y → Y हटाकर IES
Vowel + Y → सिर्फ S

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. City → Cities
  2. Baby → Babies
  3. Lady → Ladies
  4. Story → Stories
  5. Party → Parties
  6. Boy → Boys
  7. Toy → Toys
  8. Key → Keys
  9. Day → Days
  10. Monkey → Monkeys

❌ Exception:

  • Proper nouns में कभी-कभी सिर्फ s लगता है (e.g., The Kennedys)

🟢 Rule 3: Verb + ING

✅ Formula:

Verb + ing
अगर verb “e” पर खत्म हो → e हटाओ + ing

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Play → Playing
  2. Read → Reading
  3. Write → Writing
  4. Make → Making
  5. Come → Coming
  6. Take → Taking
  7. Dance → Dancing
  8. Move → Moving
  9. Live → Living
  10. Drive → Driving

❌ Exception:

  • See → Seeing (e नहीं हटेगा)
  • Be → Being

🟣 Rule 4: Double Consonant Rule (CVC Pattern)

✅ Formula:

Consonant + Vowel + Consonant → Last consonant double + ing / ed

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Run → Running
  2. Sit → Sitting
  3. Cut → Cutting
  4. Stop → Stopping
  5. Plan → Planning
  6. Big → Bigger
  7. Fat → Fatter
  8. Hot → Hotter
  9. Win → Winning
  10. Put → Putting

❌ Exception:

  • Open → Opening (double नहीं होगा क्योंकि stress अलग है)

🟡 Rule 5: Adding ED (Past Tense)

✅ Formula:

Verb + ed
Verb ending in e → + d
Consonant + y → ied

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Play → Played
  2. Work → Worked
  3. Live → Lived
  4. Love → Loved
  5. Try → Tried
  6. Cry → Cried
  7. Study → Studied
  8. Carry → Carried
  9. Jump → Jumped
  10. Watch → Watched

❌ Exceptions:

  • Go → Went
  • Eat → Ate
  • Come → Came

🔴 Rule 6: I before E Rule

✅ Formula:

“I before E except after C”

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Believe
  2. Receive
  3. Piece
  4. Ceiling
  5. Field
  6. Chief
  7. Achieve
  8. Friend
  9. Relief
  10. Deceive

❌ Exceptions:

  • Weird
  • Height
  • Foreign
  • Science

🔵 Rule 7: Changing F / FE to VES

✅ Formula:

Word ending in f/fe → ves

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Leaf → Leaves
  2. Wolf → Wolves
  3. Knife → Knives
  4. Life → Lives
  5. Wife → Wives
  6. Shelf → Shelves
  7. Calf → Calves
  8. Thief → Thieves
  9. Half → Halves
  10. Loaf → Loaves

❌ Exceptions:

  • Roof → Roofs
  • Chief → Chiefs
  • Belief → Beliefs

🟢 Rule 8: Comparative & Superlative

✅ Formula:

Short adjective → er / est
Long adjective → more / most

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Tall → Taller → Tallest
  2. Small → Smaller → Smallest
  3. Big → Bigger → Biggest
  4. Happy → Happier → Happiest
  5. Easy → Easier → Easiest
  6. Beautiful → More beautiful
  7. Intelligent → More intelligent
  8. Honest → More honest
  9. Large → Larger
  10. Cold → Colder

❌ Exceptions:

  • Good → Better → Best
  • Bad → Worse → Worst

🟣 Rule 9: Prefixes (No Spelling Change)

✅ Formula:

Prefix + Base word

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Unhappy
  2. Impossible
  3. Rewrite
  4. Disagree
  5. Incorrect
  6. Preview
  7. Misunderstand
  8. Overwork
  9. Underline
  10. Nonstop

🟡 Rule 10: Silent Letters

🔹 Examples (10)

  1. Knife (k silent)
  2. Honest (h silent)
  3. Write (w silent)
  4. Thumb (b silent)
  5. Comb (b silent)
  6. Walk (l silent)
  7. Half (l silent)
  8. Castle (t silent)
  9. Listen (t silent)
  10. Island (s silent)

🎯 Final Summary Formula

  • Plural → s / es / ies / ves
  • ING → remove e / double consonant
  • ED → ed / d / ied
  • CVC → double consonant
  • I before E rule
  • Comparative → er / more

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