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