Tenses

Present Perfect

The spelling rules for Present Perfect Tense in building past participle of regular verbs.

Rule   Infinitive Past participle
verbs ending with -e -d phone phoned
smile smiled
agree agreed
lie lied
verbs NOT ending with -e -ed ask asked
clean cleaned
follow followed
video videoed
verbs ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double their consonant   beg begged
rub rubbed
in two-syllable verbs the last consonant double when the last syllable is stressed and it contains a single consonant preceded by vowel prefer preferred
refer referred
occur occurred
-y turns into -i if it is preceded by a consonant -ed carry carried
deny denied
fry fried
try tried