Model for drill on this rule (supply + ed, display + ed are written on the board):
“Theyinsupplyis preceded by a consonant, therefore, when the suffixedis added theyis changed toiand the word is spelled,supplied.” Or,
“Theyin display is preceded by a vowel, therefore when the suffixedis added theyis not changed, and the word is spelled,displayed.”
EXCEPTIONS.
ydoes not change before's; as in
Other exceptions to the rule, or to what is inferred from it:
[Fourth and Fifth Months.]
Rule III: “Monosyllables or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant on receiving a suffix beginning with a vowel.” This rule carries with it the inference that the final consonant is not doubled unless these conditions are all complied with.
Model for drill on this rule:
“Referis not a monosyllable, but it is accented on the last syllable; it ends in a single consonantr, preceded by a single vowele; therefore, on adding the suffixed, beginning with the vowele, the final consonantris doubled, and the word is spelled,referred.”
* Afterq,uis a consonant.
EXCEPTIONS.
The final consonant is not doubled when, in the derivative, the accent is thrown from the last syllable of the primitive; as,re fer´,ref´er ence.
OTHER EXCEPTIONS.
Note.—There is a large class of words ending inl, and accented on some other syllable than the last, in whose derivatives thelis doubled by many writers; but it accords more with the analogy of the language not to double thel. Such words are the following: apparel, cancel, channel, cudgel, dishevel, drivel, duel, enamel, equal, gambol, grovel, jewel, libel, marshal, marvel, metal, model, panel,peril, quarrel.
able, see bleage, that which, havingain, see ianal, pertaining toan, pertaining to, one whoant, one who, that which, quality of, condition ofary, one who, that which, place where, condition of, quality of, pertaining toate, act of, state of, shaped likeble, capable of, fit to becle, little, that whiched, condition ofee, one whoence, see antent, see anter, one who, that whiches, see eret, littleful, full of, havingfy, to makeial, see alian, one whoible, see bleic, pertaining to
il, see ileile, capable of, quality ofion, act of, state of, that whichious, see ousish, act ofis, that whichise, see izeism, state of, doctrine ofist, one whoity, that which, state of being, quality ofive, that which, quality ofize, act oflent, full ofless, withoutly, state of beingment, that whichoid, formor, one whoory, see aryous, full of, quality of, havingtic, see ictude, quality ofty, see ityure, that which, act ofy, that which
This index is to be used as a cross-reference by means of which, words in different parts of the book having a common root may be associated.
* Given in the Illinois State Course of Study.