![]() In American writing, when you have a one-syllable verb that ends with a single vowel followed by a single consonant, and you want to add a regular inflectional ending that begins with a vowel, you double that final consonant before adding -ed or -ing : stop, stopped, stopping flag, flagged, flagging. But there are well-established conventions. Because American practice differs slightly from British practice, there is no one answer. But as writers, we need to know just when we should double that final consonant and when we should not. As readers, we accept these variations without even thinking about them. ) We see it done both ways-sometimes with the same word ( travel, traveled, traveling travel, travelled, travelling ). ![]() The word travel has come to exemplify a common spelling quandary: to double or not to double the final consonant of a verb before adding the ending that forms the past tense ( –ed ) or the ending that forms the present-participle ( –ing. ![]()
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