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Name _______________________________________
Lesson 18
Doubling final consonants
| expel |
expelled |
expelling |
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| repel |
repelled |
repellent |
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| propel |
propelled |
propeller |
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| compel |
compelled |
compelling |
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| dispel |
dispelled |
dispelling |
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| refer |
referred |
referring |
reference |
| infer |
inferred |
inferring |
inference |
| prefer |
preferred |
preferring |
preference |
| confer |
conferred |
conferring |
conference |
| transfer |
transferred |
transferring |
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| profit |
profited |
profiting |
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| benefit |
benefited |
benefiting |
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| credit |
credited |
crediting |
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| edit |
edited |
editor |
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| limit |
limited |
limiting |
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| model |
modeled |
modeling |
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| label |
labeled |
labeling |
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| travel |
traveled |
traveler |
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| cancel |
canceled |
canceling |
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| quarrel |
quarreled |
quarreling |
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| 1. |
All of the words in the first column end with a single consonant
that follows a single vowel. What syllable is accented in the first ten
words? __________ |
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| 2. |
What happens to the final consonant
of the VAC word when a suffix beginning with a vowel is added?
__________ |
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| 3. |
Four of the VAC words also use the ence
suffix. What syllable is stressed or accented in these words? __________
Why isn't the final consonant doubled? __________________________________________________
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| Lesson Generalization
A VAC word must have a final accented syllable.
Some VAC words have a form in which the accent shifts to a
different syllable when the suffix is added. For these forms, do not
double the final consonant of the base words when you add the suffix: con-fer'
con'fer-ence.
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