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4. If there is a ‘c’ or ‘g’ before the final ‘e’ and a suffix is added beginning with a

(able) or o (ous) don’t drop the final ‘e’.
Read the following examples:

courage + ous = courageous notice + able = noticeable
G The following words are written as one word:

fireflies everything baseball inside
upside grandmother sunflower become

elsewhere together cannot fireworks

football basketball anybody skateboard
earthquake sometimes moonlight railroad

nobody however throughout newspaper
within today upstream grasshopper

nothing postman into nonsense

G The following words are written separately:

do not at once all right in front of
in spite of no one at least of course

G Words ending in , , , .ar er or re

ar scholar pillar calendar beggar
particular solar circular grammar

er owner traveller miner robber
summer character clever prisoner

or minor actor inventor tailor
emperor sailor governor author

professor doctor visitor ancestor

re figure centre metre theatre

G Words ending in , , al el le
al formal oval mammal signal

rival carnival general funeral
bridal arrival burial central

el travel camel towel squirrel

hotel jewel channel vowel
hostel tunnel parcel quarrel

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