What rule applies most closely to this word?
avail
group l. if the root is a full word, the ending is usually -able.
group ii. when the root is a full word except for a final e, the forms usually are spelled with -able.
group iii. the suffix -able always follows i.
group iv. when the root has other forms built on the letter a, the -able form is used.
group v. when the root ends in hard cor hard g. -able is used.
group vi. when the root is not a full word.-ible is used.
group vii. when the word has an immediate -tion form. -ible is used.
group viii. when the root ends in ns, miss, or soft cor g, ible is used.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.