Adding -ly rule revision

lovly or lovely?

completly or completely?

definitely or definitly?

truly or truely?

happyly or happily

Remember, we usually keep the ‘e’ when adding -ly: lovely, completely, definitely.

Exception: true — truly (Drop the ‘e’ in this commonly misspelled word.)

Change the y to i in happy — happily, merry — merrily, busy — busily


Change the e to y in words ending in the consonant + le patterns (-ble, -ple, -tle, -gle, -dle, -kle)
gentle — gently
simple — simply
terrible — terribly
wrinkle — wrinkly
possible — possibly
incredible — incredibly
probable — probably
responsible — responsibly

Do the adding -ly spelling quiz below