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1) The
-ege in four words:
college,
privilege,
sacrilege,
cortege
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2) The
-age in 60 words:
cabbage,
garbage,
damage,
rummage,
savage,
ravage,
salvage,
cleavage,
package,
linkage,
wreckage,
blockage,
shrinkage,
baggage,
luggage,
cottage,
cottage,
heritage,
voltage,
footage,
frontage,
postage,
shortage,
outage,
hostage,
vantage,
disadvantage,
advantages,
advantageous,
courage,
discourage,
courageous,
average,
coverage,
leverage,
brokerage,
hemorrhage,
mortgage,
forage,
yardage,
bandage,
adage,
manage,
drainage,
orphanage,
usage,
sausage,
message,
passage,
village,
cartilage,
roughage,
mileage,
acreage,
voyage,
language,
carry
(y
becomes i)=carriage,
carriages, miscarriage
marry
(y
becomes i)
= marriage, marriages
Note:
These four words contain a silent d
in them:
knowledge,
acknowledge,
cartridge,
edge
Notice
that the silent "e" at the end all
of the above -age words is there to keep the "g" soft, not
to make the "a" long.
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The
Next 10 Rules Will Answer the Following Questions:
1.
Do we use -y
as in lucky
or -ey
as in monkey,
and why?
2.
Do we use f
as in font,
ph
as in telephone
or gh
as in cough,
and why?
3.
Do we use k
as in keep
or the hard c
as in acclimate,
and why?
4.
Do we use the hard c
as in cat
or the hard ch
as in character,
and why?
5.
Do we use s
as in rose
or
c
as in decide,
and why?
6.
Do we use s
as in sell
or c
as in cell,
and why?
7.
Do we use ee
as in meet
or ea
as in meat,
and why?
8.
Do we use the ar
as in beggar,
the er
as in carpenter
or the or
as in doctor,
why?
9.
Do we use -cle
as in article
or -cal
as in tactical,
and why?
10.
Do we use two l's
as in cell
or one l
as in excel,
and why?
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