Main Verbs (spelling rules)

Objective: Spell correctly verbs that require –es (from the previous lesson). Now look back at the previous lesson. Most of the verbs simply required that you add –s. For example stand- stands, sleep – sleeps, write – writes. Well, that is okay. However, did you get the correct spelling for the following words: wash, watch, piss, fetch, brush, polish, cry, slash and fix. If you did, congratulations are in order. If you didn’t, this lesson is for you. a) For words ending in –sh, add –es e.g. wash – washes, polish – polishes, slash – slashes. i. Eugene washes. ii. Jane polishes. iii. John slashes. b) For words ending in – ch, add – es e.g. watch – watches, fetch – fetches. i. Jane watches. ii. Eugene fetches. c) For verbs ending in – s, add –es e.g. piss – pisses. The cow pisses. d) For verbs ending in –x, add –es e.g. fix – fixes. The mechanic fixes. e) For verbs ending in – y that comes after a consonant, drop the –y and add -ies. Note, the English alphabet has twenty-six letters. Five (5) of these are vowels: a, e, i, o and u. The remaining twenty –one(21) are consonants. Cry-cries, try- tries, dry-dries. i. Juliet cries. ii. She tries. iii. Joan tries. iv. She tries. v. The cloth dries. vi. It dries. Now one problem with rules is that no one likes them. You however do not have a choice if you want to spell correctly. You will need to write these sentences every day until you can spell them correctly without thing about the rules. Your journey to really enjoying this English sentence pattern has begun. Have fun writing your sentences.