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Final Silent "e"

If a word ends in a consonant followed by a silent "e", drop the "e" before endings beginning with a vowel, but keep the "e" before endings beginning with a consonant:

engage becomes engaging but engagement

care becomes caring but careful

fate becomes fatal but fateful

scarce becomes scarcity but scarcely


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