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Question
Find five words ending with ‘-ing’ and five words ending with ‘-ed’ from the lesson.
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Solution
- Words ending with ‘-ing’ –
- Scolding
- running
- spending
- chirping
- drilling
- reading
- making
- closing
- opening
- rapping
- walking
- beginning
- Words ending with ‘-ed’
- Started
- passed
- hurried
- happened
- frightened called
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