![]() ![]() She enjoyed the massage because it relaxed her.What do we do? We just add ED to the end. But since the final consonant is a Y, we do NOT double that letter. Notice how there is a vowel before each letter.įor example: the verb PLAY is a verb that ends a consonant L a vowel A and a consonant Y. When a word ends in a W, X or Y, we do NOT double that final letter before add ED. We don’t double the final consonant when it is W, X or Y. The teacher referred her students to the Woodward English website.So, we double the final consonant R of REFER and it becomes REFERRED with two Rs. REFER has two syllables though the last syllable is stressed … re FER. So, we double the final consonant T of ADMIT and it becomes ADMITTED with two Ts. We double the final consonant N of PLAN and it becomes PLANNED with two Ns.ĪDMIT has two syllables though the last syllable is stressed … ad MIT. We double the final consonant and add -ED to the end of them. Let’s see some examples of words ending in a consonant + vowel + consonant: stop, plan, admit and refer So now STOP becomes STOPPED with two Ps in the middle. What do we do? We double the final consonant P which now gives us two Ps. STOP ends in a consonant T, a vowel O, and a consonant P. This includes words that only have one syllable. When a verb ends in a consonant + vowel + consonant AND the final (or only) syllable is stressed, we double (make two of) the final consonant and add ED. Verbs ending in consonant + vowel + consonant What do we do? We just add the letter D to the end. When a word ends in a consonant + E, we just add D to the end of it.įor example: LIVE ends in the consonant V followed by the letter E. InfinitiveīUT there are some exceptions! -ED Spelling Exceptions Verbs ending in Consonant + E In general, you just add -ED to the end of a regular verb or word.įor example: with the verb play, just add ED to the end and it becomes played. In this English lesson, we are going to learn the correct spelling of words ending in ED.įor now we will mostly use regular verbs in the past tense as examples though the same rules apply to all words ending in ED. Regular past participles (which have the same form as the past simple tense form): ![]() Why not practice this for yourself or test your friends and family? Below are a list of 15 words that you need to decide whether they need ‘s’ or ‘es’ adding on the end to make them plural.In English there are many words that end in ED. So, when the word has s, ss, z, ch, sh, or x at the end of a word, you add ‘es’: This rule was created centuries ago, as a means of stopping the plural ‘s’ clashing with these letters. The spelling rule is: when the word ends in ‘ s’, ‘ ss’, ‘ z’, ‘ ch’, ‘ sh’, or ‘ x’ you add ‘es’. Or maybe you enjoy walking, so you could write ‘I like walking down the River Thames path’ or if you enjoy walking far, you could write ‘I like walking down the River Thames paths’.īoth words (church and path) end in the letter ‘h’, so how come the first example adds the letters ‘es’ to make it plural, whilst the second example only adds the letter ‘s’ to make it plural? If you are writing an assignment about what you like to do, you could write ‘I like going to church’, if you enjoy going to more than one church, you could write ‘I like going to churches.’ However this isn’t always the case if the word ends in the letter ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘z’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’, or ‘x’ you add ‘es’. Usually when you are talking about more than one item or thing, you add the letter ‘s’ on the end, which makes it plural. There are so many spelling rules and it can be difficult to learn and remember them all when you are learning English. ![]()
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