Tuesday, August 01, 2006

English Spelling --- -IE or -EI

Rule: Write I before E Except after C Or when it sounds like an A As in "neighbor" and "weigh"

Examples: -i before -e:
diesel
relief
believe
niece
chief
sieve
frieze
field
yield

Examples: -e before -i:
receive
deceive
ceiling
conceit
vein
sleigh
freight
eight

Exceptions:
seize
either
weird
height
foreign
leisure
conscience
counterfeit
forfeit
neither
science
species
sufficient

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi! I happy to hear that you are healty, wealthy, but why a little angry?
your notes about ie ei is very good