Typescript Good old regular verbs make the past form by adding -ed to the end of the root verb.Look becomes looked, watch becomes watched, and laugh becomes laughed.Okay, so there are some spelling rules to be considered when it comes to regular verbs and their -ed endings.Cry ends in a -y and we have to change this to an i before we add -ed, but we don't do so with the verb play which becomes played.The reason for this is that the y in cry has the sound of an i. When this rule is applied, we change the y to an i, and this rule must never be defied.Verbs that already end in an e, like live, love, and smile, all things we should do every day, just put the d at the end.Then there are words that end in a consonant plus vowel plus consonant.I plan to stop and … [Read more...]
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