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title: Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e

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The 16 questions of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 91 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t1/) — «I was hopping you'd come» says a birthday card. What did the writer mean, and what's the fix? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t2/) — «fixin' to write stoped, looks kinda funny». Why does it look funny? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t3/) — «she runned and swimmed, she's well behind for four». What does it really show? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t4/) — What would happen if we stopped doubling: «hoping» for both hope and hop? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t5/) — «me mam says I'm boss at spelling but I put cryed». What should Hollie remember? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t6/) — «the past of jump sounds like jumpt so spell it like that, innit». What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t7/) — In a cartoon, a teacher says: «Double the last letter before every -ing!» Which word proves her wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t8/) — «panicing looks fine to me». How would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t9/) — «Grace says Americans spell travelled wrong, lol». What is fair? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t10/) — ★★★ Which word is spelled correctly? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t11/) — ★★★ «Visit» becomes «visited». «Admit» becomes «admitted». Why the difference? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t12/) — ★★★ Which list has every word spelled correctly? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e1/) — Ascertain the correct procedure when the ending -ing is appended to a word terminating in a silent e. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e2/) — Identify the condition under which the final consonant of a word of two syllables is doubled before a suffix commencing with a vowel. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the spelling of the regular past tense. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e4/) — It is given that a young child says «runned». Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the utterance? — right ✓ · exam

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