Rules for Spelling. Rule III. Words ending in y preceded by a consonant retain the y on taking a suffix beginning with i; but on taking a suffix beginning with any other letter, y is in most cases changed to i; as cry, crying; glory, glorious; fancy, fanciful. The exceptions are, pity, piteous; duty, duteous; plenty, plenteous; beauty, beauteous. In these words y is changed to e. Y does not change before 's, as: baby, baby's; lady, lady's; enemy, enemy's. That beauteous head, if it did go down, Carried sunshine into the sea. - ALICE CARY. A baby's feet, like seashells pink. Words ending in y preceded by a vowel retain y on taking any suffix; as, joy, joyful; valley, valleys. The exceptions are day, daily; lay, laid; pay, paid; say, said. Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see. Adjectives of one syllable ending in y preceded by a consonant retain the y on taking any suffix; as, shy, shyly, shyness; sly, slyly, slyness; dry, dryly, dryness. The exceptions are -er, -est; dry, drier, driest, slier, flier. When the head is held too high The brains inside are poor and dry.-FROM THE German. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust. 2. Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse. 3. Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light. 4. When Venus, throned in clouds of rosy hue, Flings from her golden urn the vesper dew. 5. Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. 6. King was a name too proud for man to wear With modesty and meekness.- WILLIAM COWPER. 7. Could doff at ease his scholar's gown To peddle wares from town to town. 10. 'Tis plate of rare device. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Rules for Spelling-ie and ei. Rule. i before e Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor and weigh.- DR. Brewer. We are slow to believe what if believed would hurt our feelings.-OVID. I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. Hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh? GEORGE ELIOT. Or studied the philosophy of tears?— EDWARD YOUNG. Learn the simple, rhyming rule given above, and the following most common exceptions: either, neither, leisure, inveigle, seine, seize, weird, heifer, sleight, height, forfeit, surfeit, foreign, sovereign, counterfeit, mullein. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.-HOSEA BALlou. How has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The rose has taken off her robe of red The mullein-stalk its yellow stars has lost.-ALICE Cary. Men are neither suddenly rich nor suddenly good. - LIBANIUS. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark; The happiest bird that sprang out of the ark. 2. The pale arc of the Northern Lights Rose o'er the mountain summits. - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 3. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, 4. I hear the bell's melodious din, I hear the organ peal within. - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 5. Not yet the hawthorn bore her berries red. -WILLIAM CowPER. 6. Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes. 7. When grass is chill with rain or dew, Beneath my shade, the mother ewe Lies with her infant lamb. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 8. If he had been as you and you as he You would have slipt like him.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 9. All green was banished save of pine and yew. |