regular verbs
The spelling pattern for regular verbs
Regular verbs follow a spelling pattern for past and past participle endings.
Add -d to one- or two-syllable verbs ending in e.
- bake (baked)
- live (lived)
- type (typed)
Add -ed if the word has two consonants.
- start (started)
- burn (burned)
- refund (refunded)
Add -ed to one-syllable, one-vowel verbs. In this case you double the consonant before -ed.
- stop (stopped)
- trap (trapped)
- ban (banned)
Add -ied to verbs ending in y. (Also drop the y.)
- study (studied)
- try (tried)
- marry (married)
*Note: Other spelling rules exist for adding -ed. Above are two common rules that are easy to remember.