end of a line when division can be avoided with- out bad spacing.
The terminations -ed and -ing of all verbs and participles may be carried over when unavoidable in a narrow measure, as in
- bound-ed
- bound-ing
- debat-ed
- debat-ing
- gild-ed
- gild-ing
- rat-ed
- rat-ing
The terminations -er and -est in many adjectives are divisible, but when pronunciation practically makes one syllable only of a word, as in cooked, its division should be avoided when possible.
- black-er
- black-est
- bold-er
- bold-est
- great-er
- great-est
- strong-er
- strong-est
The terminations -ed, -ing, -er, -est, should not be carried over as distinct syllables in words that double the consonants preceding, as:
- admit-ted
- hot-ter
- red-der
- admit-ting
- hot-test
- red-dest
ever we can, not only in the composing of spelling-books dictionaries, but also in the dividing of words at the ends of false lines. . . .
"The old principle of dividing by the eye, and not by the ear, I have rejected; and, with it, all but one of the five rules which the old grammarians gave for the purpose. 'The divisions of the letters into syllables, should, unquestionably, be thesame in written, as in spoken and language; otherwise the learner is misguided, and seduced by representations into injurious errors.' (Wilson, Essay on Grammar, p. 37.) Through the influence of books in which the words are divided according to their sounds, the pronunci ation of the language is daily becoming more and more uniform, . . ." Grammar of English Grammars, p. 182.
