Past Simple of Regular Verbs: The past form of regular verbs ends in - d, - ed, or - ied. Here are some guidelines for spelling. 1. Add -d to the base form. This happens when the base form ends in a vowel and one or more consonants plus e: ached, baked, blamed, breathed, cared, cached, chased. diced, dozed, dyed, edged, fiddled, filed, glared, grated, hated, hoped, joked, lived, mired, noted, paced, pasted, raced, raised, sliced, spared, surprised, tasted, typed, whined. This also happens when the base form ends in ue, oe, or ie: glued, rued, sued, hoed, toed, died, lied, tied 2. Change -y to -i and add -ed. This happens when a verb ends in a consonant and y: apply / applied; bully / bullied; bury / buried; carry / carried; copy / copied; cry / cried; dry / dried; ferry / ferried; fry / fried; hurry / hurried; marry / married; parry / parried; pry / pried; query / queried; rely / relied; tarry / tarried; tidy / tidied; try / tried; vary / varied; worry / worried This does not happen when a verb ends in a vowel and y: annoy / annoyed; bray / brayed; destroy / destroyed; employ / employed; enjoy / enjoyed; fray / frayed; gray / grayed; obey / obeyed; play / played; pray / prayed; prey / preyed; stay / stayed; stray / strayed; sway / swayed; toy / toyed Compare fray / frayed with fry / fried; pray / prayed , prey / preyed and parry / parried with pry / pried. 3. Double the final consonant and add -ed if there is a single stressed vowel before the final consonant. ban / banned; can / canned; hem / hemmed; mop / mopped; pin / pinned; sip / sipped; trap / trapped; wad / wadded; whip / whipped; compél / compélled; confér / conférred; prefér / preférred; refér / reférred Note: Compare cane / caned and can / canned; mope / moped and mop / mopped; pine / pined and pin / pinned; wade / waded and wad / wadded. Also compare óffer / óffered and confér / conférred; trável / tráveled and compél / compélled. 4. Add -ed to the base forms of all other regular verbs.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:49:34 +0000
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