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Can someone help explain this Grammar rule on verbs?

Jasmine1992

Can you explain the following in the simplest way possible for me to commi tit to memory.
'The present participles is made up of the base form + ing, There are some exceptions to this rule. All verbs that contain a short final vowel in front of a final consonant double the consonant before -ing, e.g.

sob sobbing
bid bidding
flog flogging
run running
stop stopping
get getting
put putting''

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Reply 2

hennessybubbles

that's not a grammar rule it's a spelling rule.

I think basically if you only have 1 consonant between two vowels the vowel is 'long'

like probe/prop/ probing/propping

Reply 3

hennessybubbles

that's not a grammar rule it's a spelling rule.

I think basically if you only have 1 consonant between two vowels the vowel is 'long'

like probe/prop/ probing/propping

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