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Sentence: 5 tips to writing perfect word order

Sentence

We learn that a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop or exclamation point. Many students do just that but with fragmented expressions that make no sense. This happens with students at all levels of education and may occur because they never really grasped the …

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Consonants – digraphs, trigraphs, hard, soft, blends, silent sounds

Consonants - sh sounds, chef, passion, sugar, ocean, official, precious. Consonant free worksheets.

Consonants are the letters of the alphabet other than the vowels a e i o u. The ones in the English alphabet are b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z. In English, some consonants are very …

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Vowels: A simple guide on sounds, long, short, silent, digraphs, trigraphs

Vowels. Vowel worksheets.

Vowels in the English alphabet are a e i o u and sometimes y. Each of these letters represents two sounds, long and short, and have been the basis for learning to read for a long time despite the complexities of the written English language. As reading methods evolve, phonics …

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Spelling rules for ch, tch, ck, k, oi, oy, ou, ow, ie, ei

Spelling rules - i before e except after c, exceptions, c sounds like sh, ei sounds like long a, ei sounds like short e for reading lessons

Spelling words in English is not as easy as ABC. It involves learning letter sounds and rules for blending them, forming words and changing their meaning to fit into sentences. A learner must read a lot of books, articles, newspapers and magazines written in English to get familiar with these …

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Affixes – rules for adding prefixes and suffixes

Affixes - suffixes, drop the consonant, drop the e, change y to i, add s, es, ies, change is ending to es, change us ending to i, change on ending and um ending to a, change ix and ex endings to ces for reading lessons

The process of adding letters to the beginning or ending of words to make new words is called morphology. Words are morphed into new words using affixes. Additions to the beginning of root words are called prefixes and at the end are suffixes. Here is a breakdown on the spelling, …

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