Adding ing to words

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Adding ing to words
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What happens to the following words when we add
ing onto the end? Try to think of a reason for
the different changes.
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• milk

• ing

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• ing

• help

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• When we add ing to short vowel words
  (a,e,i,o,u) ending in two consonant phonemes we
  simply add the letters
• i, n and g.
• hand handing
• post - posting

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• wish

• ing

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• miss

• ing

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• When we add ing to words with a short vowel
  which end with 2 or 3 consonants, we simply add
  the letters
• i, n and g.
• fetch fetching
• rock - rocking

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• What would happen with these words?

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• find buy
• watch miss

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• fan

• ning

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• shop

• ping

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• fit

• ting

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• When we add ing to words with a short vowel
  ending with one consonant, we have to double the
  last letter.
• hop - hopping
• beg - begging

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• What would happen with these words?

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• knot
• hug
• hum

• ting
• ging
• ming

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• drive

• driving

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• time

• timing

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• dance

• dancing