It looks like you're working on a worksheet titled
"Find the Right Consonant Endings", which focuses on adding the correct
-ed or
-ing endings to verbs. The goal is to choose the appropriate past tense (
-ed) or present participle (
-ing) form of the verb based on context.
Let’s go through the task step by step:
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Part 1: Choose the correct -ed or -ing ending for each word
Here are the words and their options:
| Word | -ed | -ing |
|--------|-----|------|
| Play | played | playing |
| Placed | placed | placing |
| Shone | shined | shining |
| Rain | rained | raining |
| Move | moved | moving |
| Open | opened | opening |
| Push | pushed | pushing |
✔ All these forms are correct:
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Played / Playing
-
Placed / Placing
-
Shone / Shining (Note: "shone" is the past tense; "shined" is also acceptable in some dialects, but "shone" is traditional)
-
Rained / Raining
-
Moved / Moving
-
Opened / Opening
-
Pushed / Pushing
So the correct answers are:
- Play →
playing or
played
- Place →
placed or
placing
- Shine →
shone or
shining
- Rain →
rained or
raining
- Move →
moved or
moving
- Open →
opened or
opening
- Push →
pushed or
pushing
But since the instruction says “for each word, circle the correct -ed or -ing ending,” it likely depends on the sentence context — which we’ll see next.
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Part 2: Fill in the blanks using -ed or -ing
#### 1. Loli (push) ________ the buttons in the elevator.
We need to decide between
pushed or
pushing.
- This is a completed action in the past.
- The subject is
Loli, and she performed the action.
- We use
past tense here because it's describing what happened.
✔ Correct answer:
pushed
>
✔ Loli pushed the buttons in the elevator.
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#### 2. Mado is (move) ________ to a new house.
This is a
present continuous tense structure:
is + verb-ing
- "Is" indicates present tense.
- "Moving" is the present participle.
✔ Correct answer:
moving
>
✔ Mado is moving to a new house.
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✔ Final Answers:
1. Loli
pushed the buttons in the elevator.
2. Mado is
moving to a new house.
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🔍 Explanation:
-
-ed ending is used for
simple past tense (completed actions).
- Example: "She pushed the button."
-
-ing ending is used for
present continuous (actions happening now) or
gerunds.
- Example: "She is pushing." or "Pushing is hard."
In sentence 1, the action is completed →
pushed
In sentence 2, the action is ongoing →
moving
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Parent Tip: Review the logic above to help your child master the concept of 2nd grade inflectional endings worksheet.