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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the past tense because

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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]

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capacitors are getting really expensive these days... Which of the following

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words is spelled correctly.. here are your potential answers which is correct....

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Well...when you want to find the past tense of [Man wearing a scarf with 'ed' on it]

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a verb adding 'ed' to the end will usually do

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the trick but there are plenty of verbs that need to change completely and we [Verbs and their changed form examples]

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don't know if you've ever had to wait for a verb to change but well it could

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take a while.....Alright let's start by checking [Man grabs a magazine while waiting]

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out option A) cryed might sound right to the ear but the spelling's a bit off the

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correct spelling actually has an 'I' not a 'Y' why no need to actually cry about

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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]

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smile giving us this E riddled monster we need to cut one of those E's to

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get us a correct past tenseof smile.... All right all this crying, smiling

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makes us a bit of an emotional roller coaster here about it hasn't gotten any [People riding a rollercoaster]

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closer to the right answers how about D) well, this one's managed to avoid smileed

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surplus of E's but it's still a mess so correct past tense of take

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doesn't involve packing on 'ed'.... but rather a complete transformation to [Nurse removing bandages from take]

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took, we don't want to give the word a botched facelift so D's gotta go what

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about C) yep of our options is the only one where we can simply tack on an 'ed'

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to the end of our verb and get that correctly spelled past tense form if you [Answer C highlighted in a green circle]

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got a different answer feel free to go back in time and try again maybe thwart

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the various plans or some Libyan terrorist while you're at it... [Libyan terrorist crashes into telephone box]

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