Regular verbs

[t] ask ! asked brush-brushed cook !cocked dress ! dressed help ! helped knock !knocked laugh-laughed like-liked look-looked pick-picked stop-stopped talk-talked thank-thanked walk-walked wash-washed watch-watched work-worked [d] answer-answered arrive-arrived clean-cleaned copy-copied hurry-hurried learn-learned listen-listened live-lived love-loved open-opened play-played rain-rained remember-remembered ski-skied snow-snowed travel-travelled try-tried use-used [id] complete-complete plant-planted point-pointed recite-recited repeat-repeated shout-shouted skate-skated wait-waited want-wanted

Spelling Rules:

Verbs ending in -e, take only -d: like-

liked

Verbs ending in a consonant and y- transform the y into i +ed: study:

studied

Verbs ending in a vowel and y get only ed: playVerbs ending in a consonant preceded by a vowel, double the consonant at the end: stop stop+p+ed=

played

stopped travel-

Verbs ending in l, double l and add the -ed ending:

travelled

quarrel- quarreled They played in the park last week. "enotes repeated actions from the past: My father often took me to the park when I was little.
"enotes actions that began and finished in the past: