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In the present tense regular verbs stay the same as their root (or main) form in rst- and second-person singular and plural and in third-person plural, but they add S to the third-person singular:
I paint
We paint
You paint
You paint
He, she, it paints They paint
Past tenses of regular verbs added to the root form for all persons and numbers: “I,
you, he, she, it, we, you, they painted There are some variants, depending on the letter that ends the root form and where the accent falls on the word. Words that end in eland are accented on the rst syllable (travel) form the pastas do other regular verbs traveled Words that end in “el” but aren’t accented on the rst syllable (excel) add an “1” informing the past tense (excelled. British spelling uses the double “1” for all past tenses of “el” root words, and some American styles
adopt this variant spelling. For the most part, this style should be avoided in
American writing.
The past tense form is also, inmost cases, the past
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