 | 1927 - 392 pàgines
...You have learned in your other school years this jingle for the ie words and their exceptions: Put i before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a As in neighbor and weigh. Their, neither, leisure, foreign, seize, and height are exceptions •. CHAPTER XI § 59. Reporting... | |
 | 1921 - 646 pàgines
...myself misusing prepositions. Oh, for a good rule for the use of in and into like the spelling maxim: "i before e, except after c, or, when sounded as a, as in neighbor and weigh. " Dorothy's students showed by their themes that they found prepositions difficult. In its scant four... | |
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Remember, i before e except after c, or when sounded as "a 
