>Should I check just DIRECTLY in front of the ending e, or shouldn't there be
>ANY short syllables at all in the word before the ending e?
Håvard,
Check DIRECTLY before the e. If e is in R1, but not in R2, you must have a
pattern [C]VCe, where C is a list of consonants; V a list of vowels. [C]
means the list of consonants may be absent. [C]VC is short if V is one
vowel, and the final C one consonant other than w,x,Y. So you don't remove
the e from ape, tape, scrape, but you do from able, table, whistle, house,
goose, grieve.
Martin
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