TEAS 2022 ENGLISH SECTION

TEAS 2022 ENGLISH SECTION i before e except after c - CORRECT ANSWER words like: believe, fierce fiend, and friend. unless after c: receive, receipt, or ceiling exceptions: codeine, leisure, and seizure Double the final consonant - CORRECT ANSWER words like: blurred, planned, splitting. exceptions: bleeding, plowed, vomited. both correct: traveling, travelling, canceled and cancelled, modeled and modelled plural rules - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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