are not many of these words. war, warm, towards The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w television, treasure, usual The /ʒ/ sound spelt s The suffixes If a suffix starts with a consonant letter, it is enjoyment, sadness, –ment, , and added straight on to most root words careful, playful, hopeless, –ness, –ful –less –ly without any change to the last letter of plainness (plain + ness), those words. badly Exceptions: (1) argument (2) root ending in with a consonant merriment, happiness, –y before it but only if the root word has more plentiful, penniless, than one syllable. happily Contractions In contractions, the apostrophe shows can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, where a letter or letters would be if the couldn’t, it’s, I’ll words were written in full (e.g. can’t cannot). It’s means it is (e.g. It’s raining) or sometimes it has (e.g. It’s been raining), but it’s is never used for the possessive. The possessive Megan’s, Ravi’s, the girl’s, apostrophe (singular the child’s, the man’s nouns) Words ending in station, fiction, motion, –tion national, section Statutory requirements Rules and guidance (nonstatutory) Example words (nonstatutory) Homophones and It is important to know the difference in there/their/they’re, meaning between homophones. here/hear, quite/quiet, see/sea, bare/bear, one/won, sun/son, to/too/two, be/bee, blue/blew, night/knight Common exception Some are exceptions in some accents door, floor, poor, because, words but not in others e.g. past, last, fast, path find, kind, mind, behind, – and bath are not exceptions in accents child, children*, wild, where the a in these words is pronounced climb, most, only, both, /æ/, as in cat. old, cold, gold, hold, told, every, everybody, even,
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w are not many of these words. war, warm, towards The /ʒ/ sound spelt s television, treasure, usual The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly If a suffix starts with a consonant letter, it is added straight on to most root words without any change to the last letter of those words. Exceptions: (1) argument (2) root ending in –y with a consonant before it but only if the root word has more than one syllable. enjoyment, sadness, careful, playful, hopeless, plainness (plain + ness), badly merriment, happiness, plentiful, penniless, happily Contractions In contractions, the apostrophe shows where a letter or letters would be if the words were written in full (e.g. can’t cannot). It’s means it is (e.g. It’s raining) or sometimes it has (e.g. It’s been raining), but it’s is never used for the possessive. can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, I’ll The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns) Megan’s, Ravi’s, the girl’s, the child’s, the man’s Words ending in –tion station, fiction, motion, national, section Statutory requirements Rules and guidance (nonstatutory) Example words (nonstatutory) Homophones and It is important to know the difference in meaning between homophones. there/their/they’re, here/hear, quite/quiet, see/sea, bare/bear, one/won, sun/son, to/too/two, be/bee, blue/blew, night/knight Common exception words Some are exceptions in some accents but not in others – e.g. past, last, fast, path and bath are not exceptions in accents where the a in these words is pronounced /æ/, as in cat. door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, child, children*, wild, climb, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told, every, everybody, even,
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