


Become Take Have Practice |
Becoming Taking Having Practicing |
Exceptions: | |
Singe Dye Age Shoe |
Singeing Dyeing Ageing Shoeing |
Swim Dig Sit |
Swimming Digging Sitting |
Exceptions: verbs ending in: “x” and “w” | |
Fix Box Snow |
Fixing Boxing Snowing |
Help Talk Work |
Helping Talking Working |
Look Eat Heat |
Looking Eating Heating |
Exceptions: | |
Dial Fuel |
Dialling Fuelling |
Upset /ʌpˈset/ Admit /ədˈmɪt/ Deter /dɪˈtɜːr/ Forget /fəˈɡet/ |
Upsetting Admitting Deterring forgetting |
enter /ˈen.tər/ budget /ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/ Whisper /ˈwɪs.pər/ Visit /ˈvɪz.ɪt/ Benefit /ˈben.ɪ.fɪt/ |
Entering Budgeting Whispering Visiting Benefiting |
Exceptions: | |
Travel /ˈtræv.əl/ Label /ˈleɪ.bəl/ Cancel /ˈkæn.səl/ Worship /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp/ Kidnap /ˈkɪd.næp/ |
Travelling Labelling Cancelling Worshipping Kidnapping |
Picnic Traffic Mimic |
Picnicking Trafficking Mimicking |
Die Lie |
Dying Lying |

Indicate a precise time in the past:




A long action (past continuous), interrupted by a short action (past simple): when=while





Simultaneity/Simultaneousness: Two long actions in the past: while=as


