The sailor
----ens the rope. Did you ---- your ticket?

3. Insert _speak or speech_: I was ----ing with our congressman
about his recent ----. I ---- from experience.

4. Insert _plan_ or _plane_: The architect's ---- was accepted.
The carpenter's ---- cuts a long shaving. The carpenter does
not ---- the house.

5. Insert _quite_ or _quiet_: The baby is ----ly sleeping. She
is ---- well now, but last night she was ---- sick. Be ----.
Walk ----ly when you go.

=Words in _ei_ or _ie_=

=74. Write _i_ before _e_
When sounded as _ee_
Except after _c_.=

Examples: _believe_, _grief_, _chief_; but _receive_, _deceive_,
_ceiling_.

Exceptions: _Neither financier seized either species of weird leisure._
(Also a few uncommon words, like _seignior_, _inveigle_, _plebeian_.)

Rules based on a key-word, lice, Alice, Celia (_i_ follows _l_ and _e_
follows _c_) apply after two consonants only, and do not help one to
spell a word like _grief_. Rule 74 applies after all consonants.

Note.--The words in which the sound is _ee_ are the words really
difficult to spell. When the sound is any other than _ee_ (especially
when it is _a_), _i_ usually follows _e_.

Examples: _veil_, _weigh_, _freight_, _neighbor_, _height_, _sleight_,
_heir_, _heifer_, _counterfeit_, _foreign_, etc.

Exceptions: _ancient_, _friend_, _sieve_, _mischief_, _fiery_, _tries_,
etc.

Exercise:

Write the following words, supplying _ei_ or _ie_: _conc--t_,
_retr--ve_, _dec--tful_, _n--ce_, _y--ld_, _p--ce_, _s--ge_,
_s--ze_, _rec--pt_, _n--ther_, _w--rd_, _rel--ve_, _l--sure_,
_f--ld_, _v--n_, _r--gn_, _sover--gn_, _sl--gh_, _br--f_,
_dec--ve_, _r--n_, _f--nt_, _perc--ve_, _w--ld_, _gr--vous_,
_--ther_.

=Doubling a Final Consonant=

=75. 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.=

Examples: (a) Words derived from monosyllables: _plan-ned_, _clan-nish_,
_get-ting_, _hot-test_, _bag-gage_, (b) Words derived from words
accented on the final syllable: _begin-ning_, _repel-lent_,
_unregret-ted_.

Note 1.--There are four distinct steps in the application of this rule.
(1) The primary word must be found. To decide whether _begging_ contains
two _g's_, we must first think of _beg_. (2) The primary word m