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... justify justifier fancy fanciful mercy merciful mercy merciless penny penniless ready readily steady steadily EXERCISES . Form the comparative and superlative of the following words , and add any other affixes that are applicable . busy ...
... justify justifier fancy fanciful mercy merciful mercy merciless penny penniless ready readily steady steadily EXERCISES . Form the comparative and superlative of the following words , and add any other affixes that are applicable . busy ...
Page 46
... justify rely envy remedy pity levy -er to deny envy copy magnify sanctify curry carry cry purify justify -ful to bounty plenty pity duty beauty -ance to apply dally ally vary luxury -ant to supply comply ply luxury defy -age to ferry ...
... justify rely envy remedy pity levy -er to deny envy copy magnify sanctify curry carry cry purify justify -ful to bounty plenty pity duty beauty -ance to apply dally ally vary luxury -ant to supply comply ply luxury defy -age to ferry ...
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... justify spy vary marry typify qualify try pity fancy petrify sanctify employ play employs plays survey pay surveys pays 3. For the same reason change ie in the following to y , and add -ing . die tie vie lie belie 4. Final y , preceded ...
... justify spy vary marry typify qualify try pity fancy petrify sanctify employ play employs plays survey pay surveys pays 3. For the same reason change ie in the following to y , and add -ing . die tie vie lie belie 4. Final y , preceded ...
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... justify amplify modify deify simplify verify signify qualify personify falsify glorify purify indemnify gratify verify ratify exemplify fortify sanctify notify disqualify The following make -faction : - satisfy stupify rarefy putrefy 2 ...
... justify amplify modify deify simplify verify signify qualify personify falsify glorify purify indemnify gratify verify ratify exemplify fortify sanctify notify disqualify The following make -faction : - satisfy stupify rarefy putrefy 2 ...
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... deplore provoke excuse cure reprove magnify convoke debate note improve justify invoke palate value resume reconcile pleasure repute WORDBUILDING . The terminations -able and -ible . 3. The THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 53 able and ible.
... deplore provoke excuse cure reprove magnify convoke debate note improve justify invoke palate value resume reconcile pleasure repute WORDBUILDING . The terminations -able and -ible . 3. The THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 53 able and ible.
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accented Add able affix beginning analogy ance ANOMALOUS WORDS Apostasy aversion boat bond-age cab-bage CHANGE OF LETTERS.-RULE child chough chyle chyme con-val-es-cent DIPHTHONGS DOUBLING OF LETTERS.-RULE dough drachm ence English spelling English words end ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING EXAMPLES EXERCISES final following verbs following words form the following grease guage ible IRREGULAR COMBINATIONS knead language large number last consonant LETTERS.-RULE I.-FINAL LONG VOWEL SOUNDS lyre MAIZE manner form MAX MÜLLER mode monosyllables Noah's ark OMISSION OF LETTERS.-RULE past tense phlegm pity plough practical preceded principle pronunciation race fleece redundant letters rem-in-is-cent retained ribon Rules for Spelling sentences SHORT VOWEL SOUNDS SILENT LETTERS steady ready surplice syllable beginning teacher teaching spelling tendency to throw terminations thyme tion tree try glory UNSETTLED ORTHOGRAPHY Verbs ending vil-lage vowel is added WEEN WORDBUILDING words below add WORDS OF UNSETTLED Write the names zhun
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Page 93 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 83 - While hewing yews Hugh lost his ewe And put it in the Hue and Cry, To name its face's dusky hues Was all the effort he could use. You brought the ewe back by and by And only begged the hewer's ewer Your hands to wash in water pure Lest nice-nosed ladies not a few Should cry, on coming near you, 'Ugh'.
Page 45 - Final y preceded by a consonant is changed into i before all affixes, except those beginning with i.
Page 88 - Little strokes fell great oaks. hun'ger blan ket trin ket tinker con gress 64 65 RULES FOR SPELLING. L Final e is dropped when a syllable beginning with a vowel is added. 128. -ing. Waste not, want not. bake . . . bak'ing love . . . lov'ing place plac ing trace trac ing make mak ing like lik ing come com ing smile smil ing have hav ing 129.
Page 83 - Hugh lost hia ewe, And put it in the " Hue and Cry ;" To mark it's face's dusky hues Was all the effort he could use.
Page 55 - Words of one syllabic, and words accented on the last syllable, double the last consonant. When a syllable beginning with a vowel is added...