Download Words ending in -sede, -ceed, and -cede

Processes and Guidelines in Technical Writing
1. Common Spelling Mistakes
Homonyms
 accept, except
 affect, effect
 complement, compliment
 its, it's
 personal, personnel
 principal, principle
 stationary, stationery
 than, then
 their, there, they're
 to, too, two
 whose, who's
 your, you're
advice, advise
cite, site, sight
counsel, council, consul
lose, loose
 Doubled internal consonants
 Internal syllables or letters
 Many words have short, practically unpronounced internal syllables that are easily
omitted or misspelled: for example, athletics, category, disastrous, optimistic,
privilege, and desperate. Perhaps the only way to learn these is to repeat them
several times, emphasizing the internal syllable: for example, ben-EH-fi-cial,
bound-AH-ries, cat-EH-go-ry.
 Words with endings such as -ance and -able
 Another source of spelling difficulties is words with similar-sounding endings:
extravagant, occurrence, compatible, irresistible, and performance.
 Words ending in -sede, -ceed, and -cede
 Still another group of confusingly spelled words is that group ending in -sede, -
ceed, and -cede: for example, precede, proceed, exceed, supersede. Again, the best
thing to do is memorize them or look them up.
 The groups of words discussed above are by no means all of the possibilities. You
may have trouble with words ending in -or and -er or those ending in -ary, -ery,
and -ory. Make your own lists of such word groups that give you problems in
spelling.
 The silent -e rule
 When words end in a silent -e (for example, write), you drop the -e when
adding a suffix (write + ing = writing).
 The rule for -ie and -ei
 Use i before e except after c in words in which the sound is a long e (as in
"feet") in words such as piece, receive, and fiend. There are exceptions to
this rule: leisure, either, weird, and seize.
 Doubling consonants
 When you add a suffix to a word ending in a consonant, make sure you
know whether to double the final consonant: drag becomes dragged, but
equip becomes equipment.
 Words ending in -y
 enjoy becomes enjoys, but try becomes tries.