--- title: Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e — how Mova does on the tests · English description: Lesson 7 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/) / 7 # Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e **Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 7 of the english course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} «I was hopping you'd come» says a birthday card. What did the writer mean, and what's the fix? - **1.** Wishing, so «hopeing» with an e — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Wishing, so «hoping» with one p — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Jumping, so «hoping» is wrong — no support - **4.** Jumping, so the card is right — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} «fixin' to write stoped, looks kinda funny». Why does it look funny? - **1.** It should be «stopt», the old Texas way — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It looks funny but «stoped» is right — no support - **3.** It looks funny because «stop» has no past tense — no support - **4.** Short vowel, one final consonant: double it to «stopped» — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} «she runned and swimmed, she's well behind for four». What does it really show? - **1.** She has not learned any grammar rules at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Those are the correct past forms — no support - **3.** She should stop talking until she gets it right — no support - **4.** She knows the -ed rule and is learning the exceptions — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 7, line 5: «Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran; go, went; catch, caught. Little children who say «runned» have learned the rule so well the…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «learn» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «rule» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4} What would happen if we stopped doubling: «hoping» for both hope and hop? - **1.** Every word would get shorter and clearer — no support - **2.** The words would sound different but look the same — no support - **3.** Readers could not tell hoping from hopping — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Nothing, readers would always know — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 8: «In a short word with one short vowel and one final consonant, double the consonant before -ing or -ed: stop, stopped; hop, hopping.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hop» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} «me mam says I'm boss at spelling but I put cryed». What should Hollie remember? - **1.** -ed and -ing both change y to i — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Only American spelling changes the y — no support - **3.** -ed and -ing both keep the y — no support - **4.** -ed changes y to i (cried), -ing keeps y (crying) — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} «the past of jump sounds like jumpt so spell it like that, innit». What's true? - **1.** Spell it how it sounds: jumpt — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Regular past is always spelled -ed, whatever you hear — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Spell it «jumpd» to save letters — no support - **4.** Use -t for some verbs and -d for others — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} In a cartoon, a teacher says: «Double the last letter before every -ing!» Which word proves her wrong? - **1.** swimming — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** running — no support - **3.** gardening — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** sitting — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} «panicing looks fine to me». How would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules? - **1.** Like «pan-i-king» with a hard k — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Like «pan-i-sing», with a soft c — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Like «pain-sing», with a long a — no support - **4.** Exactly like «panicking» — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} «Grace says Americans spell travelled wrong, lol». What is fair? - **1.** Grace is right, Americans just spell badly — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Both are wrong; the right one is «travveled» — no support - **3.** Each spelling is right in its own country — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The cousin is right, British spelling is old — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} ★★★ Which word is spelled correctly? - **1.** forgetting — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** forgeting — no support - **3.** foregetting — no support - **4.** forgetteing — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11} ★★★ «Visit» becomes «visited». «Admit» becomes «admitted». Why the difference? - **1.** ad-MIT is stressed at the end; VIS-it is not — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** «Visit» is an irregular verb, like swim or run — no support - **3.** There is no reason; it is random — no support - **4.** «Admit» is shorter than «visit» — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} ★★★ Which list has every word spelled correctly? - **1.** hopping, stopped, cryed, panicking — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** hopeing, stoped, cryed, panicing — no support - **3.** hoping, stoped, cried, panicing — no support - **4.** hoping, stopped, cried, panicking — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Ascertain the correct procedure when the ending -ing is appended to a word terminating in a silent e. - **1.** The silent e is omitted before the ending is appended — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** The silent e is doubled before the ending is appended — no support - **3.** The ending -ing is replaced by -eing — no support - **4.** The silent e is retained and the ending appended unaltered — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 7, line 2: «Two rules do most of the work. Drop the silent e before an ending that starts with a vowel (make, making; bake, baked) but keep it before one that starts with…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drop» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the condition under which the final consonant of a word of two syllables is doubled before a suffix commencing with a vowel. - **1.** When the stress falls upon the first syllable — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** When the word is of American origin — no support - **3.** When the stress falls upon the final syllable — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** When the word contains more than five letters — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 7, line 9: «In longer words, double only if the stress falls on the last syllable: begin, beginning; but garden, gardening.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «stress» (+3); the same action «fall» (+2); the same place «last syllable» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the spelling of the regular past tense. - **1.** It is spelled -ed in Britain and -t in the United States — no support - **2.** It is spelled according to its pronunciation in each word, as -t, -d or -id, as the speaker hears it — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** It is invariably spelled -ed, notwithstanding its pronunciation as /t/, /d/ or /id/ — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** It is spelled -ed only in verbs of a single syllable — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 4, line 2: «English often has several spellings for one sound. Tom in Newcastle grumbles that «boat», «snow», «home» and «toe» all say /oa/ and are all spelled differently…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «oa» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} It is given that a young child says «runned». Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the utterance? - **1.** The child is speaking a regional dialect of the United States — score 6 - **2.** The child has failed to acquire any rule of the language — score 8 - **3.** The child is employing the correct form of the past tense — score 8 - **4.** The child has acquired the regular rule and is applying it to an irregular verb — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 11, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 7, line 5: «Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran; go, went; catch, caught. Little children who say «runned» have learned the rule so well the…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «little children» (+3); the same action «learn» (+2); the same thing acted on «rule» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/e4/) - ← previous: [6. Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/6-spelling-plurals/) - next →: [8. Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/)