ENGLISH LANGUAGE

COMMON ENGLISH
VERBS
ED IN PAST TENSE

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COMMON ENGLISH VERBS

EXAMPLES
accept
ask
admire
admit
Answer
battle
beam
beg
behave
belong
call
camp
carry
collect
confess
Connect
Damage

Delay
deliver
depend
describe
desert
earn
educate
end
Enjoy
Laugh
Look
lie
miss
mix
Move
offend
Offer

open
question
Quiz
Quake
reduce
rhyme
rob
rock
study
shock
shop
skip
sue
Walk
Waste
Work
Wash
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ED VERBS
USAGE
FOR PAST TENSE OF COMMON VERBS
PAST PARTICIPLES OF COMMON VERBS

GROUPS
GROPU

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When ed is
pronounced as /d/.

When ed is
pronounced as /t/.

When ed is
pronounced fully
as /ed/ or /id/.

This is when the e is

not pronounced, and
the d is pronounced
as /d/.

This is when the e is

not pronounced, and This is when the ed
the d is pronounced can be fully
as /t/.
pronounced as /ed/.
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GROUP 1
When ed sounds like /d/

his occurs when the verb ends in a

vowel sound
Hard/voiced consonant
VOWEL EXAMPLES
Answer
/answerd/

Answered

Carry
carried /carryd/

Offer

Offered /offerd/

Lie

Quake

Quaked /quakd/

Show
/showd/

lied /lied/
Showed
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GROUP 1
When ed sounds like /d/

oiced consonant such as

b
z

EXAMPLES
Beg

Bed /begd/

Rub

Rubbed /rubd/

Quiz

Quizzed /quizd/

Boil
/boild/

Boiled

Seem
Seemed /seemd/
Plan
/pland/

Planned

Serve
/servd/

Served

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GROUP 2
When ed sounds like /t/

rs when the verb ends in a soft unvoiced consonants lik

p
ch
sh
s

Walk
/walkt/

Walked

Crash
Crashed /crasht/

Shop
/shopt/

Shopped

Miss
Missed /mist/

Branch
/brancht/

Branched

Cough
/cought/

Coughed
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GROUP 3
When ed sounds like /ed/

ccurs when the verb ends in consonants like

t
d
EXAMPLES
Accept
/accepted/

Accepted

Offend
/offended/

Paint
/painted/

Painted

Land
/landed/

Landed

Collected

End
/ended/

Ended

Collect
/collected/

Offended

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BONUS
Optional practice exercises to test your
knowledge
Links to other practice exercises
Links to other ED verb sites

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