Basic Spelling Rules – The final e Rule
The final e Rule. Words ending with a silent e usually drop the e before a suffix beginning with a vowel.
have + ing = having
survive + al = survival
fortune + ate = fortunate
abuse + ive = abusive
Exceptions: words containing the soft sound g/c retain the e before suffixes -able or -ous (ex. courageous or changeable)
Retain the e in words that might be mistaken for other words if the rule were applied (ex. singe/singeing, dye/dyeing, shoe/shoeing)
Words ending in ie, drop the e and change the i to y when the suffix ing is added – to prevent two i’s from coming together (ex. die/dying, tie/typing, lie/lying)
In the words mileage, acreage, lineage, the e is not dropped before the suffix -age.
Basic Spelling Rules – The final e Rule
April 15, 2007 by quotes
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