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    1. The document provides rules for spelling the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs in English. For regular verbs, it lists common suffixes like -ed that are added to the base form. For irregular verbs, it lists the past tense form without a predictable spelling pattern. 2. Examples are given to demonstrate applying the rules, such as "I cooked my lunch yesterday" and "He bought a condo last month." Practice problems ask the reader to write out the past tense of sample verbs. 3. The purpose is to teach English learners how to identify the base form of a verb and apply the correct spelling rules to write it in the simple past tense. Memorizing irregular verb forms is also

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    1. The document provides rules for spelling the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs in English. For regular verbs, it lists common suffixes like -ed that are added to the base form. For irregular verbs, it lists the past tense form without a predictable spelling pattern. 2. Examples are given to demonstrate applying the rules, such as "I cooked my lunch yesterday" and "He bought a condo last month." Practice problems ask the reader to write out the past tense of sample verbs. 3. The purpose is to teach English learners how to identify the base form of a verb and apply the correct spelling rules to write it in the simple past tense. Memorizing irregular verb forms is also

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    1. The document provides rules for spelling the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs in English. For regular verbs, it lists common suffixes like -ed that are added to the base form. For irregular verbs, it lists the past tense form without a predictable spelling pattern. 2. Examples are given to demonstrate applying the rules, such as "I cooked my lunch yesterday" and "He bought a condo last month." Practice problems ask the reader to write out the past tense of sample verbs. 3. The purpose is to teach English learners how to identify the base form of a verb and apply the correct spelling rules to write it in the simple past tense. Memorizing irregular verb forms is also

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    1. The document provides rules for spelling the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs in English. For regular verbs, it lists common suffixes like -ed that are added to the base form. For irregular verbs, it lists the past tense form without a predictable spelling pattern. 2. Examples are given to demonstrate applying the rules, such as "I cooked my lunch yesterday" and "He bought a condo last month." Practice problems ask the reader to write out the past tense of sample verbs. 3. The purpose is to teach English learners how to identify the base form of a verb and apply the correct spelling rules to write it in the simple past tense. Memorizing irregular verb forms is also

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    Spelling of the S​ imple Past Tense​ ​of ​Regular Verbs.

    Rule Base Form Past Form


    Add –ed to most regular verbs work worked
    cook cooked
    Ends in “e”, add-d only live lived
    use used
    Ends in a “consonant + y”, change study studied
    “y” to “i” and add -ed apply applied
    cry cried
    *stay stayed
    * play played
    Ends in a “vowel + consonant”, stop stopped
    double the final consonant and add shop shopped
    –ed (except w or x) *fix fixed
    *snow snowed

    For example:
    1. I ​cooked ​my lunch yesterday.
    2. He ​applied​ for 2 jobs last month.
    3. She ​started​ to work at 7:00 AM.
    4. We ​learned​ Social Media last Tuesday and Thursday.

    Practice:​ Please write the past tense forms of the verbs.

    1.walk_______ 2. shop_______ 3. work _______

    4.dance_______ ​ 5
    ​ . study_______ ​ 6
    ​ ​. ​play_______

    7.type________ ​ ​8​.​try_______ ​ ​ 9. live_______


    Spelling of the Past Tense of ​Irregular Verbs.
    (Please look at the Irregular Verbs list)

    Base Form Simple Past Present Perfect


    *be was/were been
    break broke broken
    buy bought bought
    come came come
    cut cut cut
    *do did done
    drink drank drunk
    eat ate eaten
    go went gone
    have/has had had

    For example:
    1. I ​bought​ a condo last month.
    2. He ​got​ his new job last week.
    3. We​ came​ to U.S. in 2009.
    4. She ​did​ homework at the library yesterday.
    Practice: ​Please write down the past tense of the irregular
    verbs below.

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