Rules in Syllabication 2
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This document provides rules for syllabicating words in English. It gives examples of words divided into syllables according to rules such as words ending in le being divided before the consonant, words ending in ed only forming a syllable if preceded by t or d, and suffixes like able and ible forming their own syllable. The document then provides exercises applying these rules by having the reader syllabicate words from a text.
Rules in Syllabication 2
- 1. Study the words given above in their syllabicated form.
- 2. a. pur-ple b. fum-ble c. mid-dle d. start-ed e. fund-ed f. lev-el g. us-u-al h. print-able i. con-vert-ible
- 3. Formulate the rules of syllabication where these words apply:
- 4. 15. When a word ends in le, preceded by a consonant, the word is divided before the consonant. a. pur-ple b. fum-ble c. mid-dle
- 5. 16. When –ed comes at the end of a word, it forms a syllable only when preceded by d or t. d. start-ed e. fund-ed
- 6. 17. When a word or syllable ends in al or el, these usually form el the last syllable. f. lev-el g. us-u-al
- 7. 18. The suffixes able and ible form their own syllable. h. print-able i. con-vert-ible
- 8. EXERCISES Syllabicate the following words from the selection, Payatas.
- 9. a. landslide b. swamp c. garbage d. disaster e. relocation
- 10. a. land-slide b. swamp c. garb-age d. di-sas-ter e. re-lo-ca-tion
- 11. f. sentiment g. torrents h. diggings i. close j. promises
- 12. f. sen-ti-ment g. tor-rents h. dig-gings i. close j. prom-ise
- 13. k. dwelling l. collapse m. community n. residence o. calamity
- 14. k. dwell-ing l. col-lapse m. com-mu-ni-ty n. res-i-dence o. ca-lam-i-ty
- 15. p. victim q. receive r. repeat s. operator t. avalanche
- 16. p. vic-tim q. re-ceive r. re-peat s. op-er-a-tor t. av-a-lanche