 | Epes Sargent - Spellers - 1858 - 180 pages
...in-duce, mana^e, re-fine. — Ness. Base, fee'ble, hoarse, i'dle, lame, lan/e, like, pale, ripe, rude. 5. Words ending in y preceded by a consonant change the y to t before any augment but 's, or one beginning with i. EXAMPLES. Add the augments est, es, eth, and ed, severally, to the following... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Spellers - 1858 - 180 pages
...man'a^e, re-fine. — Ness. Base, fee'ble, hoarse, i'dle, lame, larc/e, like, pale, ripe, rude. 5. Words ending in y preceded by a consonant change the y to i before any augment tut '*, or one beginning with »'. EXAMPLES. Add the augments est, es, eth, and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Textbooks - 1861 - 182 pages
...man'ajre, re-fine. — JVess. Base, fee'ble, hoarse, i'dle, lame, largre, like, pale ripe, rude. 5. Words ending in y preceded by a consonant change the y to • before any augment but 's, or one beginning with j. EXCEPTIONS — The derivatives of dry and shy... | |
 | Epes Sargent - English language - 1870 - 176 pages
...in-duce, man'a^re, re-fme. — Ness. Base, fce'ble, hoarse, i'dle, lame, larye, like, pale ripe, rude. 5. Words ending in y preceded by a consonant change the y to before any augment but 's, or one beginning with i. EXAMPLES. Add the augments esf, es, cth, and ed,... | |
 | Henry Major - Student teachers - 1873 - 90 pages
...for payed. Words ending in ie convert this to y, on the addition of the post-fix ing; as, die dying; words ending in y, preceded by a consonant, change the y to i before a post- fix; as, beauty beautiful, ready readily. Full, used as a post-fix, retains only one... | |
 | Edwin Crawford Hewett - English language - 1899 - 206 pages
...Most of the dictionaries give authority for this, but there seems to be no good reason for it. III. Words ending in y, preceded by a consonant, change the y to i on taking a suffix. If the suffix begins with i the y is retained, as in copyist. Derivations from... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Sisk - English language - 1903 - 276 pages
...double the final consonant before er and est; as, big bigger biggest red redder reddest (c) Adjectives ending in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to t before adding er and est; as, happy happier happiest lucky luckier luckiest NOTE. — Some adjectives of one... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Samuel Swayze Seward - English language - 1905 - 314 pages
...the spelling of hundreds of common English words. 86. Helps to Correct Spelling. — 1. Final y. — Words ending in y preceded by a consonant change the y to i before a termination. This includes the plural of nouns and third person singular of verbs ending... | |
 | Rose M. Libby - Reading - 1906 - 196 pages
...double the final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel, as, rebel, rebellion. 2. Words ending in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to i before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel; as, pony, ponies. 3. Final e is usually omitted in... | |
 | David Gibbs - English language - 1908 - 602 pages
...well with the last sound in the word: as, box — boxes, dish — dishes. (Review Section 182.) 2. "Words ending in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to i and then add es: as, lady — ladies. (Review Section 185.) 3. Most words ending in o preceded by... | |
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Words ending in y preceded by a consonant change the y to i and add es to form the plural : as lady, ladies ; comedy, comedies. 
