Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: When to Use the Past Tense for Irregular Verbs
Often when we write the past tense of a regular verb, we add an "-ed" after the last letter. Irregular verbs do not follow this rule! The simple past and simple participle of irregular verbs can end in a variety of ways with no...
Other
Oxford Dictionaries: Verb Tenses: Adding Ed and Ing
Spelling rules and word lists for adding -ed and -ing endings to verbs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
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Pbs Learning Media: What Verbals Are
Verbals are verbs disguised as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Verbals come in three forms: gerunds, infinitives, and participles. Gerunds are verbs that end in "-ing" and function as nouns. Participles end in "-ing," "-ed," "-d," "-t,"...
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 1
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: started, played, and fixed. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 2
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: pulled, wanted and walked. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 3
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: needed, realized, and reached. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 4
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: locked, decided, and closed. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 5
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: regarded, discovered, and noticed. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 6
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: bolted, propped, and closed. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 7
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: renovated, arrived, and looked. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 8
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: barred, jumped, and spotted. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 9
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: descended, shuttered, and noticed. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games
Links to ten different pronunciation matching games for words ending in "ed."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Add Ed and Ing Endings to Verb
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces rules for correct spelling of verbs ending in -ed and -ing. There is a wonderful interactive activity and Activote assessment.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verb Endings
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to spell regular verb endings s, ed, ing (link to grammar work on tenses).
Quia
Quia: Inflectional Endings (S, Ed, and Ing)
Decide which inflectional ending matches the verb in each sentence.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Inflected Endings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for students to practice adding -s, -ed, and -ing to words.
Other
Jump Start: Suffix Search [Pdf]
Learners practice making words with -ed, -ing, and -er suffixes. [PDF]