| Continuous Present +ing | Simple Present +s | Simple Past +ed (regular) |
| (VERB) +ing (long vowel) |
(VERB) +s | (VERB) +ed |
| eat → eating | like → likes | talk → talked |
| see → seeing | see → sees | add → added |
| walk → walking | walk → walks | chew → chewed |
| push → pushing | run → runs | earn → earned |
| rain → raining | rain → rains | fax → faxed |
| (VERB) e +ing | (VERB) {s sh ch x o} +es | (VERB) e +d |
| live → living | cross → crosses | fence → fenced |
| bake → baking | fish → fishes | gaze → gazed |
| come → coming | hatch → hatches | name → named |
| hide → hiding | box → boxes | pause → paused |
| write → writing | go → goes | taste → tasted |
| (VERB) ie→y +ing | (VERB) y→i +es | (VERB) y→i +ed |
| die → dying | carry → carries | carry → carried |
| tie → tying | study → studies | study → studied |
| lie → lying | try → tries | try → tried |
| vie → vying | fly → flies | fly → flied |
| belie → belying | verify → verifies | verify → verified |
| (VERB) DD +ing (short vowel) |
(VERB) {ay ey oy uy} +s | (VERB) DD +ed (short vowel) |
| chat → chatting | play → plays | wrap → wrapped |
| shop → shopping | portray → portrays | mop → mopped |
| stem → stemming | obey → obeys | chat → chatted |
| swim → swimming | enjoy → enjoys | plan → planned |
| win → winning | buy → buys | zip → zipped |