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Review: Double Consonants

Choose correct "-ed" form and "-ing" form of the following words.

  1. admit ("-ed" form)

    1. admited
    2. admitted

  2. admit ("-ing" form)

    1. admiting
    2. admitting

  3. stop ("-ing" form)

    1. stoping
    2. stopping

  4. stop ("-ed" form)

    1. stoped
    2. stopped

  5. rob ("-ing" form)

    1. robbing
    2. robing

  6. rob ("-ed" form)

    1. robed
    2. robbed

  7. return ("-ing" form)

    1. returnning
    2. returning

  8. return ("-ed" form)

    1. returnned
    2. returned

  9. unwrap ("-ing" form)

    1. unwrapping
    2. unwraping

  10. unwrap ("-ed" form)

    1. unwrapped
    2. unwraped

 

Written by Dorothy Turner

 

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