Today we will be covering some rules of spelling. Let us begin with "i" before "e". If one is spelling a word with both an "i" and an "e" next to each other the "i" will come first except when after the letter "c". Or when it sounds like an "a" such as the word "neighbor". I before E words are relief, chief and believe while e before i words are receive, deceive and eight.
The exceptions to this rule are: seize, either, weird, height, foreign, leisure, conscience, counterfeit, forfeit, neither, science, species and sufficient.
If the root of a word is not a complete word, then add "ible". For example vis"ible". If the root is a complete word then add "able". For example swimm"able". In the case the root had an "e" then drop the "e" and add the "able". For example desire + able = desirable.
Exceptions to this would be words like responsible, flexible and inevitable.
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