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Irregular spelling changes

changes they're not so bad though those are irregular for example if you have a vowel and consonant at the end of your word you're going to double the consonant so get becomes g...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Talking about the pastSubtitles: en

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of little

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changes they're not so bad though those

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are irregular

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for example if you have a vowel and

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consonant at the end of your word you're

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going to double the consonant so

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get

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becomes

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getting

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it becomes getting

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sit

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becomes

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setting we were sitting in our chairs

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fast

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run becomes running

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i was running

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when i tripped and fell

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on the ground

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all right um and then also verbs that

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end in e

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all you do is you take away the e

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and you add ing

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so

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take

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would become

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taking

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what about leave

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i'll type that here

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leave becomes what

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or make

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what does make

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become about half

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oh that's a good one

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we have lots of possibilities lots of

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verbs ending in e

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now these in the symbol path so we saw

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this before the um

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vowel consonant the doubling there we

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saw that a little bit with the simple

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past two but this happens even more

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with the continuous form with the ing

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yeah making

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perfect without an e very nice

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and have becomes

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happening perfect

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leaving making great awesome yeah good

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work everyone teamwork yeah teamwork

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makes the dream work okay so i was

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making cookies

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uh she was leaving

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her

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[Music]

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not a house plane yep

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always think of songs that help you

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remember

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good so

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um

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let's see

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now

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forming questions now

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for example

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um

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let's say emily and i are

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talking to each other

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and

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um

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i call her this morning she's not at my

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house

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i'm not at her house and i say hey emily

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i called you 10 times yesterday

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oh

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what were you doing

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you didn't answer my calls oh my gosh i

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am

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so sorry

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i

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