TEAS 2024 ENGLISH SECTION LATEST SOLUTION

i before e except after c - ANSWER-words like: believe, fierce fiend, and friend. unless after c: receive, receipt, or ceiling exceptions: codeine, leisure, and seizure Double the final consonant - ANSWER-words like: blurred, planned, splitting. exceptions: bleeding, plowed, vomited. both correct: traveling, travelling, canceled and cancelled, modeled and modelled plural rules - ANSWER-on regular words just add s ex: apples, cars, nurses. words ending in -ch, -s, -sh, -x, or -z add es ex: lunches, dashes, bosses words ending in -f or -fe add -ves to the end. ex: life=lives, self=selves elf=elves chief=chieves homophones - ANSWER-words that sound the same but have different meanings ex: bough/bow, lead/led, red/read, seem/seam, their/ there/they're, ball/bawl homographs - ANSWER-words that are spelled the same but have different meanings ex: bow: to bed at the waist or a decoration fair: reasonable or a carnival lead: to show the way; a heavy toxic metal perfect: flawless or to make flawless tear: to rip or water from the eye bat: animal or equipment for baseball Commas - ANSWER-(standard english punctuation) serial commas (oxford comma) are used in series like lists "strawberries, oranges, bananas, and grapes" or in a sentence before FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) ex: my brother was on his way home, but g