- Verbs which end in a silent -e, drop the -e and add -ing:
- come - coming
- fade - fading
- face - facing
- dance - dancing
- live - living
- compile - compiling
- ride - riding
- write - writing
- bake - baking
- hope - hoping
- Verbs which end in -e or -ee:
- be - being
- see - seeing
- age - ageing
- agree - agreeing
- flee - fleeing
- Verbs ending with -ie:
- die - dying
- tie - tying
- lie - lying
- vie - vying
- Verbs ending with one vowel + one consonant (with the excepting of "W, X, Y), we double the last consonant and add -ing:
- cut - cutting
- shut - shutting
- dig - digging
- sit - sitting
- run - running
Exception of "W, X, Y": - stay - staying
- play - playing
- box - boxing
- fix - fixing
- draw - drawing
- bow - bowing
- For two syllable-word verbs, we double the last consonant only if the stress falls on the last syllable:
- admit - admitting
- refer - referring
- prefer - preferring
- begin - beginning
- defer - deferring
- confer - conferring
- For two syllable-word verbs which were stressed on the first syllable, we only add -ing:
- offer - offering
- suffer - suffering
- whisper - whispering
- open - opening
- listen - listening
- visit - visiting
- Some verbs take the two forms of Rule 5 and Rule 6 above:
- travel - traveling / travelling
- marvel - marvel / marvelling
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Spelling Rules of the Present Participle (V+ing)
There are some rules on how to add -ing to verbs called Present Participle and Gerund:
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