garden → gardening. While -ed can put a verb in the past tense. jump → jumped. Back to top. Watch: Using the suffixes -ed and -ing Back to top. Activity 1. Use the following words to fill in ...

A fun, animated guide to the rules for adding the suffixes 'er', 'ing', 'ed', 'est' and 'y'. This short film is relevant to teaching English at KS2 level in England and Northern Ireland and Second ...

As you can see from the examples, the -ed/-ing participles are NOT functioning as verbs in the sentences; other words are available to serve that need. In the first example above, the verb is might ...