Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Three, Lesson Two: Adding -ing

  1. think
  2. plank
  3. thank
  4. blank
  5. dunk
  6. chlorine
  7. oxygen
  8. nitrogen
  9. carbon
  10. helium
  1. hydrogen
  2. vapor
  3. mountains
  4. valleys
  5. desert
  6. great
  7. basin
  8. plateau
  9. canyon
  10. plate
Adding -ing

The -ing suffix can be added to the end of verbs. Here are a few examples: 


	run			running
	hike			hiking
	sing			singing
	sit			sitting
	jump			jumping
	cook			cooking
	time			timing
As you can see adding the -ing suffix is not as simple as just adding -ing to the end of a verb. There are three different ways of adding -ing and which one you use depends on certain patterns in the verb you are adding -ing to. 

	PATTERN ONE: JUST ADD -ING

	cook			cooling
	color			coloring
	heat			heating
	talk			talking
	think			thinking
	dunk			dunking
	drink			drinking
	jump			jumping
	speak			speaking
	rent			renting
	play			playing
	ski			skiing
	reply			replying
	spell			spelling

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