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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Any spelling rules for continuous tenses?

Hi,

Is there a way to help students remember a way to spell verbs while using the continuous tenses e.g.

was running (double 'n' instead of single 'n')

is vomiting (single 't' instead of double 't')
  

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Note the position of the stress. run > RUN > running refer > reFER > referring vomit > VOMit > vomiting consider > conSIDer > considering See . CJ

— CalifJim

  • Note the position of the stress.
  • run > RUN > running refer > reFER > referring vomit > VOMit > vomiting consider > conSIDer > considering See .
  • CJ
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Note the position of the stress.

run > RUN > running
refer > reFER > referring

vomit > VOMit > vomiting
consider > conSIDer > considering

See .

CJ
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