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Adding ing

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Adding ing teaches elementary school children how to adapt verbs into the present tense.

A verb is a doing word. To show a verb is happening now, we add ‘ing’ to the end, like ‘jump’ turns into ‘jumping’. All you need to do is add ‘ing’. However, if the word has a short vowel sound like ‘hop’, you need to double the last letter (the consonant), so that it says ‘hopping’. See how many you know of these ‘ing’ spellings.

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1 .

Finish this sentence: He is _____ at you.

waving

waveing

waveeing

wavein

The word 'wave' changes to waving, where we take away the 'e'.

2 .

Add 'ing' to the word 'amaze'.

amazing

amazeing

amazzing

amazzeing

It would make sense to click the second answer but if a verb ends with an 'e' we get rid of that letter and then add 'ing'.

3 .

Finish this sentence: They are _____ in a race.

runing

running

runng

runin

The 'u' is considered a short vowel sound and so, the 'n' needs to be doubled.

4 .

Finish this sentence: He is _____ this sum up.

ading

addin

ading

adding

Other words for add are, plus, more than, calculate, find the sum and total.

5 .

Finish this sentence: She is _____ the bush.

cliping

clipping

clipin

cliping

The 'i' sound in this word is considered to be a short vowel sound. This means we need to double the last letter then add 'ing'.

6 .

Finish this sentence: He is _____ the deer.

huntting

huntin

hunting

hunnting

When you add 'ing' onto the end of the word, we say you are writing in the present participle. This means the verb is happening in the present, right now.

7 .

Finish this sentence: They are _____ to the seaside.