Daffodil International University
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => English => Topic started by: Shampa Iftakhar on August 02, 2013, 11:59:51 AM
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Rule 2: When adding suffixes that begin with a vowel (-able, -ible, -ous, etc.) to words ending in silent e, drop the final e.
This rule explains why a word like desire contains an e and a word like desirable does not. Other examples include
response → responsible, continue → continuous, argue → arguing.
We do, however, retain the final e when a word ends in -ce or -ge in order to maintain the distinctive "soft"
pronunciation of those consonants:
notice → noticeable, courage → courageous, advantage → advantageous.
For reasons of pronunciation, the final e is also retained in words ending in a double e,
e.g. agree → agreeable, flee → fleeing.
Source:www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/style-and-editing/spelling
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Shampa Madam
Nice post but sadly our students find the rules of grammar hard enough to remember or understand. How they would react to rules of spelling is worth a thought.
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Sir:
Never guide them to remember. Definitely, it's difficult to memorize. But if we mark their misspelled word, and remind them what should be actual spelling, I think they will be careful.