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6. Words ending in silent e, usually drop the e when adding a suffix beginning

with a vowel:

Examples: divide and dividing survive and survival

fortune and fortunate abuse and abusive

Exceptions: courage and courageous notice and noticeable
change and changeable peace and peaceable
acre and acreage

7. Words ending with silent e, usually do not drop the silent e when adding a
suffix beginning with a consonant:

Examples: arrange and arrangement forgive and forgiveness

safe and safety shame and shameless

Exceptions: acknowledge and acknowledg ment argue and argument
true and truly awe and awful

8. Use i before e except when immediately following c and also when e and i
together sound like a long a.:

Examples: except after c long a sound Exceptions
i before e conceit vein weight weird foreign
deceive veil neighbor seize sovereign
shield ceiling either forfeit
ancient surfeit sleight
believe
grieve

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