Grammar Rules<\/b><\/p>\n
The plural of most nouns are formed by adding s. The letter q is always followed by u. Final e is dropped before a suffix beginning with a vowel, but is kept before a suffix beginning with a consonant. Final y, if preceded by a consonant, is changed to i. When y is preceded by a vowel, the y is kept before any suffix. The letter i comes before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll begin with a box and the plural is boxes. But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes. Then one fowl is a goose but two are called geese. Yet the plural of mouse should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a whole set of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn\u2019t the plural of pan be called pen?<\/p>\n
If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and whole set are teeth, Why should not the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, Yet had in the plural wouldn\u2019t be hose. And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.<\/p>\n
We speak of a brother and also of brethren. But though we say Mother, we never say Methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim. So English, I fancy you all will agree, Is the funniest language you ever did see.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHiegh-Ho\u2014Spelling by Rule\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
When I was in school and I learned how to spell, They taught me a rule I remember quite well; Put \u201ci\u201d before \u201ce\u201d\u2014so I learned when a brat Except after \u201cc\u201d, it\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n
When memory gets mushy, I think in this vien, For spelling\u2019s a study where sceince should riegn. And when deficeint have siezures of doubt This rule is sufficeint to straighten them out.<\/p>\n
So why need one labor to reach the hieght Or inviegle a nieghbor to set him a right, When this anceint rhyme will his critics inviegh And never a crime on his consceince need wiegh.<\/p>\n
But while I\u2019m proficeint At spelling, I\u2019ve feared Though the rule is efficeint The words so look wierd.<\/p>\n
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