 | Laurie Rozakis - 2003 - 434 pàgines
...attention to something as mundane as spelling?) Here's the rule (and it even has a bouncy rhyme to it): /' before e except after c or when sounded as a as in neighbor and weigh Here are some words that fit the rule. And here are some words that don't: * either * neither... | |
 | Marlane Renner - 2003 - 148 pàgines
...handouts, requested from my second-grade teacher, aided in Margaret's learning process. "T before V exeept after 'c,' or when sounded as 'a' as in neighbor or weigh," I drilled into Margaret's t<urmanthinking brain. "The English language is very difficult." 1 encouraged... | |
 | Amy Benjamin - 2006 - 146 pàgines
...base word: disappear, disapprove, unattractive, insincere, mismatched. 2. The I Before E Rule: It's I before e except after c, or when sounded as a, as in neighbor or sleigh. Hence, fiery, believe, relieve, friend; and receive, conceive, perceive, foreign, reign, weight,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
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Remember, i before e except after c, or when sounded as "a 
