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Prepositions
Contraction and omission of words: We say Are you not ready?, Aren't you ready? and You not ready?, but we don't say **Are not you ready? Learn the rules here.

The relationship between pronunciation and spelling.

Extremely useful pages!
Suffixation: attaching -ed, -es/-s, -ing, -ly, -er/-or/-ar to words.
Spelling rules for suffixation.
Forms of roots and suffixes when suffixation takes place: -ed, -es/-s, -'s, -s', -ing, -ly, -er/-or/-ar

Derivatives: many words have varying forms, like keep:kept, bath:bathe, life:live.
Principles of forming derivatives
List of derivatives. Extremely useful page! Lists words which change in spelling or pronunciation.

Verbs
Parts of the verb: The six forms of the verb, as ride, rode, ridden, rides, riding, rider, with their meanings explained.
Verb formations: How the tenses of the verb use these six forms.
Irregular and defective verbs: Detailed explanations of the verbs be, do, go, have, can, may, will, shall, must, could, would, should, might, quoth and wrought.
Groups of past forms of verbs: Learn the similarites between verbs like smell/spell/spill, cut/let/set and drive/ride/rise.

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