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Love + able=lovable
2. admire + able= admirable
3. duty+ full = dutiful
4. Beauty + full = beautiful
5. believe+ er= believer
6. gentle+ ness= gentleness
7. Wise+ dom = wisdom
8. create/creating
9. type/typing
10. shake/shaking
11. dye -- dyeing/dyed
12. hoe -- hoeing/hoed
13. singe -- singeing
14. relieve/relieving, achieve/achieving, grieve/grievance,
deceive/deceiver, leave/leaving, deplete/depleting,
complete/completing, compete/competing, slide/sliding,
hide/hiding, ride/riding/rider, release/releasing, please/pleasing,
lease/leasing, deface/defacing, erase/erasing
15. try/trying, buy, study, pay, spy, cry/fly, say, enjoy, tidy
Change of y to i:
Words ending in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to i
and add es or ed.
Examples : Words:
puppy - puppies
army - armies
supply - supplies
sky - skies
party - parties
library - libraries
rely - relies
marry - marries
theory - theories
study - studies
apply - applies
16. Words ending in y preceded by a vowel, just add s
Examples: boy - boys
toy - toys
employ - employs
valley - valleys
delay - delays
convey - conveys
pray - prays
stay - stays
17. Adding a suffix:
Words ending in y before a consonant usually change the y to i
before a suffix
Examples: happy - happiness
beauty - beautiful
busy - business
mystery - mysterious
luxury - luxurious
fancy - fanciful
envy - envious
mercy - merciless
ordinary - ordinarily
vary - variance
apply - appliance
17. But verbs ending in y do not drop the y before ing
Examples: study - studying
hurry - hurrying
relay - relaying
pray - praying
portray - portraying
apply - applying
III. Words wit ‘ei’ or’ie’
Words:
Words with ie and relieve, priest, relief, chieftain, grievous, field,
ei: belief, yield, thief, shriek, reprieve, besiege,
When the sound is piece, pierce, cashier, reprieve, brief, sieve
e write ie except Words after c:
after c conceit, ceiling, deceive, perceive, receipt,
deceit, conceive,
Words:
When the sound is
eight, rein, veil, heir, weight, their, sleigh, vein,
other than e,
neigh, skein, neighbor, reign, freight, heifer,
usually write ei
weir, weigh
Exceptions Words:
There are always friend, mischief, seize, sheik, weird, either,
exceptions. neither, financier, leisure, seize, species,
• advancing
• surprising
• advancement
• likeness
• crying
• studying
• obeyed
• saying