Pin, pinning Pine, pining Pine drops the silent e because the tendency in English is to drop endings that are not needed for pronunciation before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
The final consonant in such words is doubled before a suffix beginning with a vowel is added.
Monosyllables or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Final e before a Suffix Beginning with a Vowel= =76.
Words that end in silent e usually drop the e in derivatives or before a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Monosyllables and words accented on the final syllable, if they end in one consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Words ending in ce and ge retain the e when a suffix beginning with a or o is added.
Knowing that “silent final e is dropped when a suffix beginning with a vowel is added”, we naturally infer its counterpart, viz.
Words of one syllable (and words of more than one syllable if accented on the last syllable), ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the first consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Words ending in y, preceded by a consonant, retain y before a suffix beginning with i; on taking a suffix beginning with any other letter, y is in most cases changed to i.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffix beginning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
