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Old 12-Mar-2007, 17:10
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Wink we do we write the latter "e" at the end of the words?

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my name is amera i'm 18 years old and i'm from plastine ..... i have question that i will be glad to hear it's answer...
i wanna know why do we write the latter "e" at the end of some words but we are not reading thiem ?????
i would like to have the answer because no one knows here the answer of my question

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Default Re: we do we write the latter "e" at the end of the words?

Without an example, I can only guess you mean words like this:

platE
timE
smilE

??

The silent "e" usually makes the middle vowel a long vowel, so we say plAYte, instead of plAT.
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