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Takehisa Tanaka Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Would you help me understand this sentence?
Would you help me understand this sentence?
This is from my book:
"A single consonant letter at the end of te base is doubled before -ing and -ed when the preceding vowel is stressed and spelt with a single letter:
bar~ 'barring ~ barred"
I'm wondering which conjunctional word is coordinated with "spelt."
I can figure out that it is "doubled" based on the meanings.
Other than that, are there any way I can say that based on the grammatical, or stylistic way?
Could you help me, please?
This is from my book:
"A single consonant letter at the end of te base is doubled before -ing and -ed when the preceding vowel is stressed and spelt with a single letter:
bar~ 'barring ~ barred"
I'm wondering which conjunctional word is coordinated with "spelt."
I can figure out that it is "doubled" based on the meanings.
Other than that, are there any way I can say that based on the grammatical, or stylistic way?
Could you help me, please?
Top answer
I'm not sure I can understand your question. "spelt with a single letter" refers to the vowel, if that's what's confusing you. For example, it is saying that, while "bar" becomes, "cheer" does not become "cheerred".
- I'm not sure I can understand your question.
- "spelt with a single letter" refers to the vowel, if that's what's confusing you.
- For example, it is saying that, while "bar" becomes, "cheer" does not become "cheerred".
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I'm not sure I can understand your question. "spelt with a single letter" refers to the vowel, if that's what's confusing you. For example, it is saying that, while "bar" becomes, "cheer" does not become "cheerred".
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I see.
Thanks, GPY.
I wanted to ask that:
Which of these conveys the same meanings?
"A single consonant letter at the end of te base is doubled before -ing and spelt with a single letter."
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"The preceding vowel is stressed and spelt with a single letter."
From your input, the latter is correct, right?
And there is a word "when", then that word separate t
Thanks, GPY.
I wanted to ask that:
Which of these conveys the same meanings?
"A single consonant letter at the end of te base is doubled before -ing and spelt with a single letter."
or
"The preceding vowel is stressed and spelt with a single letter."
From your input, the latter is correct, right?
And there is a word "when", then that word separate t
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Takehisa TanakaWhich of these conveys the same meanings?"A single consonant letter at the end of the base is doubled before -ing and spelt with a single letter."or"The preceding vowel is stressed and spelt with a single letter."The text says "(when) the preceding vowel is stressed and spelt with a single lette
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GPYwhile "bar" becomes,I did, of course, mean to write "while 'bar' becomes 'barred'".
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