What rule applies to this word? desire
Group IV. When the root has other forms built on the letter a, the -able form is used.
Group VI. When the root is not a full word, -ible is used.
Group I. 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 VIII. When the root ends in ns, miss, or soft cor g, ible is used.
Group VII. When the word has an immediate -tion form, -ible is used.
O Group III. The suffix -able always follows i.
O Group V. When the root ends in hard cor hard g. -able is used.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret