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Anduy Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

-able or -ible? Is there a rule?

Could you me if there is a rule about when we use the sufffix -able and when we use -ible?
Also, when adding -able, in what case do we leave out the final letter e?

Thank you very much.
  

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Thanks, Anduy-- I have been wondering myself. html ]HERE[/URL].

— Mister Micawber

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Thanks, Anduy-- I have been wondering myself. The answer is [url=http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelible.html]HERE[/URL].
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Aha, I had phonology lessons but such a question didn't come to my mind to ask.Emotion: smile Thanks, Anduy. How careful you are!

Ps: Tha
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Wow! I have struggled with those endings since I first learned to write. If it weren't for the squiggly red lines in Word, I'd probably spell most of them wrong still, but this was a simple rule that I'd never heard before and will be of great help.

Thanks so much for posting that, Mr. M!
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Mister MicawberThanks, Anduy-- I have been wondering myself. The answer is [url=http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelible.html]HERE[/URL].

May *** (or whoever) bless you, Mr. M! I once knew a Latin teacher who claimed that th
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Broadly speaking, if the root word is a complete verb like 'break' or ends with an 'e' as in 'debate', then the ending is 'able'. If not, the ending is 'ible'.

Naturally there are exceptions such as flexible and collapsible but this 'rule' is pretty consistent.
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