•present participles dropping a final silent e and adding
Other forms are given in the dictionary, notably for:
•verbs that inflect by doubling a consonant, e.g., bat → batted, batting
•verbs ending in
•verbs in which past tense and past participle do not follow the regular
•present participles that add
Nouns
Plurals formed by adding
Other plural forms are given in the dictionary, notably for:
•nouns ending in
•nouns ending in
•nouns ending in
•nouns with more than one plural form, e.g., crux → cruxes or cruces; money
→ moneys or monies
•nouns with plurals showing a change in the stem, e.g., foot → feet; louse → lice
•nouns with plurals unchanged from the singular form, e.g., sheep → sheep; bonsai → bonsai
Adjectives
The following forms for comparative and superlative are regarded as regular and are not shown in the dictionary:
•words of one syllable adding
•words of one syllable ending in silent e, which drop the
•words that form the comparative and superlative by adding “more” and “most”; e.g., beautiful → more beautiful, most beautiful
Other forms are given in the dictionary, notably for:
•adjectives that form the comparative and superlative by doubling a final consonant, e.g., hot → hotter, hottest
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Syllabification
In the New Oxford American Dictionary, syllable breaks are shown for main entries and derivatives. Although all possible breaks are shown, there are some conven- tions that govern how writers break words at the ends of lines. Guidelines include:
•Avoid a break that will leave one letter and a hyphen at the end of the line or one letter (or one letter and a punctuation mark such as a period) at the beginning of a line.
•Avoid breaking a word that is already hyphenated except at that hyphen (e.g.,
•Never break proper names.
•Avoid breaking abbreviations.
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