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25.4-y and -ies endings
TYPICAL ERROR I think the baby cryed because she was trying to tell us that she was hungry.
CORRECTION I think the baby cried because she was trying to tell us that she was hungry.

EXPLANATION If a word ends in y, we leave the y when adding -ing (so cry becomes crying, study becomes studying) but we change the y to i when adding -ed or -es (so cry becomes cries and cried, study becomes studies and studied).

  • cry becomes crying, cries, cried
  • study becomes studying, studies, studied
  • fry becomes frying, fries, fried
  • deny becomes denying, denies, denied

Rewrite these words, adding the suffix -ed.
aaccompany
bcarry
churry
dply
ebaby
fdry
grally
hbusy
iferry
jsupply
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