English Spelling – When to Double Consonants (“swimming” “stopped” etc.)

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thu

Qu = W
Cvc
Thx mr

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when i attend the same class (not your) of Ms.Valen, unfortunately i culdn’t understand. but today i culd understand after listening yr class. in my opinion really i culd follow u. coze u r teaching us very slowly. so we,who r the beginners can follow u. really after listening yr class up to an extend can correct the spelling of the words. thank u sooo much

Selu

Is one of the most important lesson,is necessary to review all our students starting for myself!

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sasia

Professor Alex, you are great! Thank you so much for your lessons! I’ve always gotten confused with those doubled letters, and now it’s very clear to me! I’ve been studying english for many years, and I was never told about this rule nor about ordering adjectives (another great lesson!). Hope to hear more from you!

daniela

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Alex

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Pitts-burger

i am now a fourth year college here in philippines and my language research is about spelling having double consonants and silent letters and my goal is to find out the frequently misspelled words of freshmen education students of our school and i’m so glad that thru this research i also learn about this thing which most of the students have no care of

glendale monte

sorry Boss,

its very hard…..

Shoaib Ahmed

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Eugenio

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Andrea

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Pavoreal

Thanks teacher, my english will be best with your help, but I have a doubt, is in the five question, the Ring word if follow the single syllable CVC rule, it must spell ringging, true? pleasse helpme is the one ask I wrong.

Alex too

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JOSE

JOSE

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analyn

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Agradecido

Thanx, this is the first time I konw when to double consonants.

morealsta

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I am from Bulgaria but if all video lessons has a subtitles will be good – just idea :)
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jakomen

Alex, thanks to your lesson, I can distinguish how to put double on this word. Your dedication helps people who are learning English very much. I hope you continue bringing these lessons to us. Many thanks to you

tambui

Until now I couldn’t understand clearly. So I have memorized the words pattern. But now I see. Thank you so much.

kyoung mi

Thank you for your lessons. It is easier to remember with cvc rule. Your lesson with ordering adjectives is also good.

karel

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danym2007

can we have class on commonly made speelling error

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think you i have a main problem in grammer.plz help me. bye bye

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kiran

Hard lesson :(
need 2 2.practice more
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joy

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I mean, very often I write or say something in a way and later, I discover there is a rule suitable for it. Magic!

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Alex

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noor123

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yeswecan

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Tatiana

Why exiting is wrong in first question?

James

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bsninh

hi alex, i like your way. l didn’t understant stress rule. could you explain it more clearly one more time? take care bye

mehmet

Hi.. Alex thanks a lot..
Please explain for us about the added the less, un ,in, to the word to make sence (without) when we chose these words and how we chose them. For example Uncorrect incorrect or correctless how we must know .if ithere is rule we dont know Thanks

Zainab

Hello Alex,

Why do you use ‘is’ instead of ‘does’ to form your question at 1:10?
Great video though. Looking forward to your answer.

Max from Munich

Max

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lina

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SARAH

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wakeelahmedchanna23

you know what when my teacher though us this i was so so confused but now i get it well thank you so much man you are the best you teach my teacher hahha :)

roman

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azza

yes, Professor Mr ALEX , CAN U EXPLAIN ABOU , tenses, PLS , how many tenses?

thax somuch

ABDUL

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Paco

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crawgio67

Hi Mr. Alex
I have a question. How do I know that Stress Rule is on the first syllable or in the second syllable?

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Musta

Great lesson Mr Alex ,I like your lessons . I find it very interesting and useful ..
i have one N.B sir ,
CVC stands for Chronic Venous Congestion .,,, hh just kidding .
keep it up ( Great Teacher) and Thanks a lot for helping us .

ahmadhandasa

how about ” appalled , cruelled, duelled , refuelled …” they end with “l” , so will we double “l” in all cases ?

bexelu

Hi – just watched your doubling consonant video (thank you!!). What about the word row? It is one syllable and the last 3 letters are CVC, but it is rowing not rowwing…?

Lisa

Of course The final letter of the word “row” mustn’t be doubled because it’s not a matter of letters but sounds i.e. the word row as you can notice ends with a diphthong /əʊ/, so why to double the letter “w” then? I hope I could help you

Adenane

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Mostafa

very useful!!

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Rogério

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Gerardo

The doubling rule applies for words ending in one short vowel + one consonant, so “exited” is an exception.

Jesse Corey

what a great lesson ! Thank you very much teacher.
btw, what about the words having more than two syllables? Are there any rules for them?

kingfisher

man the quiz was easy but i know what i did wrong thanks how do i take a different quiz this make learning to another leve for me

jesus

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Thank you very much.

sovannaranou

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jrmendes

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preemy

I am afraid I misheard the exception regarding words like equip. Could anyone please explain it to me? As far as I am looking at the word, the end of it consists of vowel, vowel, consonant. I think there are more exceptions not mentioned :(

anri

Thank you Alex. It is an excellent lesson for doubling consenant. I am always have a problem with doulbing words. Thank you again

Sophie

so clear, thanks a lot sir Alex.

joe29

Thank you, I really learned a lot from this video, I also have problems with syllables, I would be happy if you work on it:)

other1

thank you very much for your english lesson. i dont understand why in the questin n° 5 you have put the answer n° 2 . i think that “ring” can be “ringging”?

anna maria

Very clear explanation…thanks a million

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Ethan Wells

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sonya22

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Joao Correia

Hello Alex,

I have been studying your lessons and I wonder if you can help me with this question:
Is there any rule or explanation for some english words have double consonants in cases on which the comparative, superlative, past or progressive rules aren’t aplicable, such as the words “grammar” or “announcement” ?
All the best,
João

Joao Correia

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God bless you

abdelbarre

Hi Alex, I make Daniela words’ mine. I’m studying English for so long and for the first time I understood about doubling consonants. My question is; why teachers don’t explain it as clearly as you do, why why ????? Anyway, thank you sooooooooo very much. You are the best!!!!!!!!!!!

ivani

5 out of 5 , great lesson !

manny2009

4/5 80%

miletzar76

Thanks for the great lesson.
are there more exceptions to these rules?
as for ADVISE, it is 2 syl word with stress at end, but it would be ADVISED, ADVISING?!

Mohsen Lotfi

I think in this case we have open syllable: “VISE”, and because of it we don’t need to double consonat “S”. Otherwise the pronanciation of syllable “VISE” would be changed.

daniyar

In other words we need to double consonants in order to keep pronanciation of the syllable. Am I right? bite – bitting; bit – bitting.

daniyar

Excuse me. I wanted to say: bite – biting, bit – bitting.

daniyar

For the same reason we must double consonats in the words “Quit” and “Equip”. Is it correct?

daniyar

Great lesson, thannk you!

buyeromanya

Great lesson, thank you!

buyeromanya

May I ask a question? According to the ‘cvc’ rule, should the progressive form of ‘ring’ be ringging?

Peter

Thanks!

Nubia1970

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chaps

not clear ????

khalid subhi

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I got 100%.
I’m really clear now.

reiko kenmotsu

seems to me very difficult lesson.

Rasho

Thanks a lot, Alex!

Edinho

Sir Alex I just want to ask. What if the student don’t know where to put the stress in the 2 syllable word? Is their any way to deal with this kind of problem?

juan pelipe

Thank you Sir Alex.:) I got perfect again.:D…lol

Ennovy21

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clevol nelson

usefull rules, thank Alex

moezbesbes

Sorry sir! Its very hard.!!!!!!!!!!!

hammadhassanhashmi

How about the verb “fix”? We don’t double the consonant and it ends in CVC. Why is that??? Can anyone tell me, please?!

jmcthebest

Because x has two consonants which are /k/ and /s/. Like the word boxing we can’t double the x

joujsensei

I’ve got 5 correct out of 5 :D
thank you so much Alex

kami88

thank you.

dorbesh

Thanks Alex :)

shuehalliwell

I made 5 correct out of 5. To check my notes is the only way to finish it. I need to practice more.

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Linngo

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amphibian

Hi Alex!
Thank you for the lesson!

But what about such verbs like: “to cancel” , “to travel” and so on? They also consist from two syllables being stressed on the first one just like in your examples: “to enter” and “to exit”. But still the verbs I’m talking about are spelled with a double “l” when either “-ing” or “-ed” is added.

Is there any other rule that could be applied for such verbs?

ArturvonMueller

thank you

HH100HH

5/5 – nice result

tacagero

hello
I didn’t understand the (stress )rule
and how do we know which part of the word is stressed more
can anyone help?

a5000.bb

Alex, thank you so much.

Marta Lopez

Hello Alex
this video is very helpful for me but I have some questions about the rules you had discussed
1 when the stress is on the second syllable of the word we have to follow the CVC rule if somewhere CVC rule is not applicable then what to do, just add other things while leaving consonant single.

Anil Kumar Malhi

2. you also had discussed the exception of the rule is it applicable only for the “qui” words or it is applicable on any double vowel word, if it is then please give me some examples.
Thanks to you

Anil Kumar Malhi

Thank you, Alex, for your Lessons