Good afternoon,my dear English learners!
There was a question about double consonants at the end of English verbs.
There was a question about double consonants at the end of English verbs.
Begin has its
stress on the final syllable (beGIN) but listen (LIS-en)
has its stress on the first syllable. If the verb ends in the pattern consonant-vowel-consonant, the
final consonant is doubled in the case of verbs like refer and occur
and begin where the stress is on the final syllable (referrer, referring,
referred, occurrence, occurred, beginning), or one
syllable words (big -> bigger, sin -> sinner) but not in the case of
verbs like listen or broker (listened, listener, brokered, etc.),
where the stress is non-final.
