Asked 4 years, 10 months ago. Active 1 year, 5 months ago. Viewed 59k times. Infinitive ING form to stop stopping to sit sitting to plan planning to get getting to swim swimming The policeman is stopping the traffic. We are planning a surprise party for our teacher. I think I am getting a cold.
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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Robusto Robusto Or baiting and batting. My mom is an English teacher and I never knew this. Nicely answered. Also unstressed short vowels, such as editing. Mehrdad: No, it's not simple. For one thing, BrE spelling rules are different from AmE rules. And the case you're describing involves which syllable is stressed.
But I'm not attempting to give rules for all verbs forever here. My answer addressed a more restricted case to which the OP's question was constrained: single-syllable verbs..
Had the OP asked a broader question, one that included cases such as you mention, I'd have given a more complicated answer. Mehrdad: The rule given in this answer says "long vowels and diphthongs do not require a doubled consonant to form the participle"; it doesn't say "only verbs with long vowels and diphthongs do not require a doubled consonant to form the participle".
Rather than "diphthongs", though, I would say "digraphs": it applies even for words like "spread" that have short vowels written with digraphs. Show 2 more comments. In fact: "siting" is a form of the verb "to site"; "planing" is a form of the verb "to plane;" and "stoping" is a form of the verb "to stope". David K David K 3, 13 13 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. This answer is useful and well-annotated, however, all of the exceptions you list are covered in the website the OP linked.
Wlerin I wrote the answer based on the posted question, and noticed some time after posting that some of my additional examples coincided with examples on the web site. The main reason I answered, however, is that the approach of matching patterns such as consonant-vowel-consonant seemed artificial to me; I have a different way of thinking of the orthography, which I've tried to convey.
Only the general rule of "just add -ING" applies. David David 3 3 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. This makes sense by the rule presented above, though I would dispute whether it is an actual rule. Actually on further consideration even the expected orthographic exceptions I can find with two-letter short vowel sounds obey the rule.
What about "squatting"? I offered him a biscuit and he ate the whole plateful. He paused for a moment to listen and then continued eating. I'll eat my hat.
I'm so hungry , I could eat a horse. Phrasal verbs eat away at sth. Idioms eat like a bird. Phrasal verbs eat away at something. Examples of eat. Jeeter does not share his ill-begotten gains with his co-conspirators, however, but runs away and eats his fill before returning home with the remaining turnips. From the Cambridge English Corpus. In four instances, the testa was removed from one end of the seed and the fleshy cotyledons eaten from the centre.
Latent structure of eating disorder symptoms : a factor analytic and taxometric investigation. She reported eating all sorts of things she should not have. The key is to have sufficient space for a table at which to eat. Those populations sourced from lodgepole pine did not differ in fecundity according to which larval food had been eaten. In different countries, the same species can be prepared for eating in different ways which require different chemotypes. Although costly, the field would benefit from longitudinal designs examining personality characteristics as prospective risk factors for eating pathology.
Special offers of ready-to- eat food were one way of reducing their own work, as seen by single-living and the oldest women. The second theme describes the women's rejection of the pressure surrounding body size and food and their desire to eat the foods they enjoyed. I couldn't get washed, dressed or eat until my husband came home at night. For example, the parser encodes the words eat and swallow as semantically equivalent. They might be eating, talking, whistling, humming, smoking during the most dramatic scenes.
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Words related to eaten gnawed , mangled , masticated , mouthed , nibbled , tasted. How to use eaten in a sentence But the medical examiner reported that Brinsley had eaten nothing at all. Uncanny Tales Various.
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