-ABLE and -IBLE words
Despite different spellings, -able and -ible are pronounced identically as an unstressed uh-bul. The stress stays on the root word and never moves onto the ending, so it is comFORTable, not comfortABLE. Several of these also lose a syllable entirely in natural speech.
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The words
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-ED ending words
Walked, played, wanted: -ed has three sounds, T, D and ID. Learn which verb takes which.
-S ending words
Cats, dogs, buses: the plural S has three sounds. Hear when it is S, Z or IZ.
-TION words
Nation, education, question: the -tion ending and where the stress always falls. Hear the rule.
-SION words
Decision, mission, television: -sion is sometimes ZH, sometimes SH. Learn which is which.
-OUGH words
Though, through, tough, cough, bough: one spelling, seven sounds. English at its worst.
-ATE ending words
Separate the adjective, separate the verb: -ate changes vowel by word class. Hear both forms.
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