Present Regular Past

The word ends Saxon Regular

Simple: 3rd Gerund Simple & Past
in: Genitive Plural
Person sg. Participle
Vowel + -y boy’s boys she plays playing he played
Consonant + -y baby’s babies she studies studying she studied
Dave’s programmes she arrives arriving he arrived
George’s offices she loves BUT -ee: he smiled
tables she sees seeing she freed
-e houses she agrees IRREGULAR: he hoped
die à dying she surprised
lie à lying he agreed
dye à dyeing he loved
Tom’s dogs he begins referring she preferred
Jim’s shops he prefers beginning he stopped
cars he stops snowing it snowed
CVC pens (vowel + ‘w’) (vowel + ‘w’)
stressed V swopping swopped
(‘w’ + vowel) (‘w’ + vowel)
controlling (BE) he patrolled
controlling (AmE) he patrolled
Martin’s fingers he listens listening she listened
CVC Kevin’s shoulders he opens delivering she delivered
unstressed V Stephen’s buildings he covers travelling (BE) she cancelled
traveling (AmE) she canceled
Luis’s kisses he kisses kissing he kissed
-s
Josh’s ashes he washes washing he washed
-sh
James’s beaches he watches fixing (‘x’ is a she watched
-ch
Except old boxes he fixes double consonant she fixed
-x
names in -s: quizzes it buzzes ‘ks’, so we don’t the bee buzzed
Uncommon:
Jesus’ (quiz) (buzz) double it)
-z
Hercules’
Leo’s tomatoes she goes going tattooed
Theo’s potatoes she does doing
Milo’s soloes she tattoos tattooing
Apollo’s heroes
vetoes
pianos
-o casinos
kangaroos
zoos
videos
tattoos
patios
studios
parents’
teachers’
Except
irregular
Plural in -s — — — —
plural
nouns:
children’s
women’s