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The answer choices are spelling rules about what to do before adding suffixes to a base word that ends in e. Identify the rule that would be applied to the word below. torture + -ous

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Hi,

Before adding the suffix "-ous" to the word "torture", you would have to remove the "e", and get the correct variation "torturous."

~Elisabeth
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