...by a consonant ? What when it ends in y, immediately preceded by a vowel? What when the infinitive of one syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel ? What when the infinitive of more than one syllable has the accent on the last ? What when the accent...

...particular principle. Thus, suppose the object of an exercise be to illustrate the rule, that " Verbs of one syllable, ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, — and verbs of more than one syllable, ending hi the same manner and accented on the last syllable, double...

...teach paint teaching painting sleeping sleep troop trooper rain raining Rule IX. Words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, and having the accent on the last syllable, double that consonant when a .syllable is added beginning with...

...joy, joy-ous ; delay, delay-ing, allay, all«y-ed. EXCEPTIONS — Said, paid, laid, staid, daily. IX. Words of one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, double the consonant before a vowel augment — shrub, shrubby ; red, redder ; bog, bofltcy • gum,...

...Exception 2. Verbs ending in ie omit the e, and change the i into y before ing ; as, Tie, tying. Verbs of one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, [or by two vowels, if the first is «,] on assuming ing or ed, double the final consonant ; as, Skip,...

...double the consonant in derivatives ; as, sleep, sleepy ; troop, trooper. 1675. АП words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, and accented on the last syllable, double that consonant in derivatives ; as fomimt, committee ; compel,...

...Exception 2. Verbs ending in ie omit the e, and change the i into y before ing; as, Tic, tying. Verbs of one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, [or by two vowels, if the first is ii,] on assuming ing or ed, double the Jinal consonant ; as, Ship,...

...Exception 2. Verbs ending in ie omit the e, and change the i into y before ing ; as, Tie, tying. Verbs of one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, [or by two vowels, if the first is it,] on assuming ing or ed, double the final consonant ; as, Ship,...

...Try, triest, tries, or trieth. Tried. Trying. EULE III. Verbs accented on the last syllable, and verbs of one syllable, ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before the terminations est, eth, ed, ing ; but never before s — thus,...

...-ing to words that end with -ie, change the ie to y; as — vie, vy-ing; die, dy-t'n$r, &c. 8. Woids of one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant before a vowel. Examples. — Shrub, shrub-iy; red, red-<fer, ieA.-dest; bog,...