Lesson 72: Suffix rule: e drop rule

What should you do with the silent 'e' at the end of a word when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel?

• Keep the 'e' and add the suffix.

• Drop the 'e' and add the suffix.

• Change the 'e' to an 'i' and add the suffix.

• Double the last consonant and add the suffix.

make+ing

• makeing

• making

• makking

• maiking

hope+ed

• hopeing

• hoped

• hopeed

• hoppeed

ride+s

• ridess

• rides

• rids

• ridees

When adding a suffix that begins with a consonant to a word ending in a silent 'e', what happens to the silent 'e'?

• The 'e' is dropped.

• The 'e' is kept.