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ELA Drills, Beginner: Main Idea 1. What word from the following sentence makes it clear that the koala was scared by the noisy celebration?
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ELA Drills, Beginner: Spelling 2. Which of the following words is spelled correctly?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the past tense because
- 00:07
it's a lot easier to talk about the past and it is to actually go there plus flux [Two men staring at time machine car]
- 00:11
capacitors are getting really expensive these days... Which of the following
- 00:16
words is spelled correctly.. here are your potential answers which is correct....
- 00:20
Well...when you want to find the past tense of [Man wearing a scarf with 'ed' on it]
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- 00:26
a verb adding 'ed' to the end will usually do
- 00:28
the trick but there are plenty of verbs that need to change completely and we [Verbs and their changed form examples]
- 00:32
don't know if you've ever had to wait for a verb to change but well it could
- 00:36
take a while.....Alright let's start by checking [Man grabs a magazine while waiting]
- 00:40
out option A) cryed might sound right to the ear but the spelling's a bit off the
- 00:45
correct spelling actually has an 'I' not a 'Y' why no need to actually cry about
- 00:49
it. So what about B) looks like someone mindlessly added an 'ed' to the end of [man adds "ed" to the word smile on a chalkboard]
- 00:53
smile giving us this E riddled monster we need to cut one of those E's to
- 00:58
get us a correct past tenseof smile.... All right all this crying, smiling
- 01:01
makes us a bit of an emotional roller coaster here about it hasn't gotten any [People riding a rollercoaster]
- 01:04
closer to the right answers how about D) well, this one's managed to avoid smileed
- 01:08
surplus of E's but it's still a mess so correct past tense of take
- 01:13
doesn't involve packing on 'ed'.... but rather a complete transformation to [Nurse removing bandages from take]
- 01:18
took, we don't want to give the word a botched facelift so D's gotta go what
- 01:22
about C) yep of our options is the only one where we can simply tack on an 'ed'
- 01:27
to the end of our verb and get that correctly spelled past tense form if you [Answer C highlighted in a green circle]
- 01:31
got a different answer feel free to go back in time and try again maybe thwart
- 01:35
the various plans or some Libyan terrorist while you're at it... [Libyan terrorist crashes into telephone box]
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