2.Change the sound of c and g

Letter c and g have two sounds.

C – /k/ and /s/ (cat, cell)

G – /g/ and /j/ (goat, Giraffe)

When you see the silent letter e after either c or g remember to use /s/ and /j/

Here are few examples

Cell

Cement

Gene

Generator

3. Keep u and v from being the last letter in any word

In general any word in English do not end with either u or v. there =fore you will see silent letter e after letter u or v in many words.

Here are fe examples

Have

Cave

Gave

Glue

4. To show word is not plural

In general we add s to make a word plural in English. But it does not mean every word that ends with letter s is plural. Consider the word house. The letter e has no sound here. And without silent letter e the sound of the word hous would not change. To show hous is not plural silent letter e is added in the end house.

Here are few more examples

Pause

Exercise

Exceptions are high frequency words as has was and other double ss words pass, mass etc.

So job of silent letter e is to show that this word is not plural

5. Every syllable has a vowel

A syllable is single unit of sound.

Consider the word planet

It has 2 syllable pla , net.

Each syable a=has a vowel. So many time silent letter e is added to a syllable where there is not vowel.

Here are few examples

Little

Pickle

Kettle

There are few more jobs of silent letter e which comes with many exceptions. There might be no reason sometimes for why this silent letter e is added in the spelling. It is said silent letter e is added without any reason when the English words are borrowed from other languages.