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You will learn the spelling of the simple past form (-ed form.) But before you continue the
lesson study the following examples and try to see how the verbs are spelled.
2. vowel + y
3. consonant + y
4. other forms
close = closed
marry = married
die = died
play = played
carry = carried
phone = phoned destroy = destroyed study = studied
show = showed
visit = visited
miss = missed
watch = watched
finish = finished
fix = fixed
buzz = buzzed
If there is a consonant after a stressed vowel at the end of the word, double the
consonant
stop stopped
ban - banned
swap - swapped
In British English we double the last l even though the last vowel is not stressed. Here are some
examples:
travel - travelled
cancel - cancelled
level - levelled
marvel - marvelled