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6.1 Nouns, verbs and adjective can have the following endings: start learning		-s/-es, -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -ly.
Noun + -s/-es (plural) start learning		books, ideas, matches
Verb + -s/-es (after he/she/it) start learning		works, enjoys, washes
Verb + - ing start learning		working, enjoying, washing
Verd + -ed start learning		worked, enjoyed, washed
Adjective + -er (comparative) start learning		cheaper, quicker, brighter
Adjective + -est (superlative) start learning		cheapest, quickest, brightest
Adjective + -ly (adverb) start learning		cheaply, quickly, brightly
6.2 The ending is –es start learning		when the word ends in –s/-ss/-sh/-ch/-x.
Match start learning		matches
Wash start learning		washes
Bus start learning		buses
Miss start learning		misses
Box start learning		boxes
Search start learning		searches
Potato start learning		potatoes
Tomato start learning		tomatoes
Do start learning		does
Go start learning		goes
6.3 If word ends in a consonant + y (-by/-ry/-sy/-vy etc.) start learning		y changes to i before the endings –s.
Baby start learning		babies
Lorry start learning		lorries
Country start learning		countries
Secretary start learning		secretaries
Hurry start learning		hurries
Study start learning		studies
Apply start learning		applies
Try start learning		tries
If word ends in a consonant + y (-by/-ry/-sy/-vy etc.) start learning		y changes to i before the ending –ed.
Hurry start learning		hurried
Study start learning		studied
Apply start learning		applied
Try start learning		tried
If word ends in a consonant + y (-by/-ry/-sy/-vy etc.) start learning		y changes to i before the endings –er and –est.
Easy start learning		easier, easiest
Heavy start learning		heavier, heaviest
If word ends in a consonant + y (-by/-ry/-sy/-vy etc.) start learning		y changes to i before the ending –ly.
Easy start learning		easily
Heavy start learning		heavily
Temporary start learning		temporarily
Words ending in –y (baby, carry, easy etc.) start learning		y does not change before –ing.
Hurry start learning		hurrying
Study start learning		studying
Apply start learning		applying
Try start learning		trying
Words ending in –y (baby, carry, easy etc.) start learning		Y does not change if the word ends in a vowel +y (-ay/-ey/-oy/-uy).
Play start learning		plays, played
Enjoy start learning		enjoys, enjoyed
Buy start learning		buys
Monkey start learning		monkeys
6.4 if a verb ending in –ie (die, lie, tie), start learning		ie changes to y before the ending –ing.
Die start learning		dying
Lie start learning		lying
Tie start learning		tying
6.5 If a verb ends in –e start learning		we leave out e before the ending –ing.
Hope start learning		hoping
Smile start learning		smiling
Dance start learning		dancing
Confuse start learning		confusing
Exceptions are: be/being start learning		and verbs ending in – ee: see/seeing, agree/agreeing.
If a verb ends in –e, start learning		we add –d for the past (of regular verbs).
Hope start learning		hoped
Smile start learning		smiled
Dance start learning		danced
Confuse start learning		confused
If an adjective ends in –e, start learning		we add –r and –st for the comparative and superlative.
Wide start learning		wider, widest
Late start learning		later, latest
Large start learning		larger, largest
If an adjective ends in –e, start learning		we keep e before the adverb ending –ly.
Polite start learning		politely
Extreme start learning		extremely
Absolute start learning		absolutely
If an adjective ends in –le (simple, terrible etc.) start learning		the adverb ending is –ply, -bly etc.
Simple start learning		simply
Terrible start learning		terribly
Reasonable start learning		reasonably
6.6 Doubling consonants (stop/stopping/stopped, wet/wetter/wettest etc.). Sometimes a word ends in vowel + consonant. start learning		For example stop, plan, wet, thin, slip, prefer, regret.
Before the endings –ing/-ed/-er/est, we double the consonant at the end. start learning		So p -> pp, n ->nn etc.
Stop start learning		stopping, stopped
Plan start learning		planning, planned
Rub start learning		rubbing, rubbed
Big start learning		bigger, biggest
Wet start learning		wetter, wettest
Thin start learning		thinner, thinnest
If the word has more than one syllable (prefer, begin etc.), we double the consonant at the end start learning		only if the final syllable is stressed.
preFER start learning		preferring, preferred
regRET start learning		regretting, regretted
perMIT start learning		permitting, permitted
beGIN start learning		beginning
If the word final syllable is not stressed, start learning		we do not double the final consonant.
VISit start learning		visiting, visited
HAPpen start learning		happening, happened
DeVELop start learning		developing, developed
ReMEMber start learning		remembering, remembered
In British English, verbs ending in –l have –ll before –ing and –ed start learning		whether the final syllable is stressed or not.
Travel start learning		travelling, travelled
Cancel start learning		cancelling, cancelled
We do not double the final consonant start learning		if the word ends in two consonants (-rt, -lp, -ng etc.).
Start start learning		starting, started
Help start learning		helping, helped
Long start learning		longer, longest
We do not double the final consonant start learning		if there are two vowel letters before it (-oil, -eed etc.).
Boil start learning		boiling, boiled
Need start learning		needing, needed
Explain start learning		explaining, explained
Cheap start learning		cheaper, cheapest
Loud start learning		louder, loudest
Quiet start learning		quieter, quietest
We do not double y or w at the end of words. start learning		At the end of words y and w are not consonants.
Stay start learning		staying, stayed
Grow start learning		growing
New start learning		newer, newest

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