Ing Form of Verb| 500 Common Verbs with Ing Form

The ing form of the verb is also known as “Verb form V4” and “Present Participle form of Verb and also work as helping verb.” If you know the base form of a verb, you can change it to its -ing form by just adding “ing.” However, there are verbs for which we need to make some spelling changes as well. Hence, you should know the predefined set of rules that we have for different verbs.

Let’s understand the rules that we use while changing a verb to its -ing form.

Rules for Ing Form of Verb

Rule No. 1

For most of the verbs, you can just add “ing” to the end of the verb to change it to its ing form (present participle form of the verb).

For example:

• Accept – Accepting
• Build – Building
• Cook – Cooking
• Develop – Developing
• Feed – Feeding
• Read – Reading
• Work – Working

Rule No. 2

If there is an “e” at the end of a verb, you need to remove the “e” and then add “ing.”

For example:

• Achieve – Achieving
• Behave – Behaving
• Convince – Convincing
• Dance – Dancing
• Escape – Escaping
• Forgive – Forgiving
• Operate – Operating

Rule No. 3

When the sequence of the last three letters of a verb is “Consonant Vowel Consonant”, then you have to double the last letter before adding ing to it.

Note: The English alphabet a, e, i, o, and u are known as “vowels,” and the rest of the alphabet are consonants.

For example:

• Admit – Admitting
• Chat – Chatting
• Clap – Clapping
• Drag – Dragging
• Occur – Occurring
• Run – Running

Rule No. 4

If a verb ends with “ie,” you have to replace “ie” with “y” and then add “ing.”

For example:

• Die – Dying
• Lie – Lying
• Tie – Tying

500 Common Verbs

Verb	-ing Form	Verb	-ing Form	Verb	-ing Form
Accept	Accepting	Handle	Handling	Paint	Painting
Add	Adding	Happen	Happening	Park	Parking
Admire	Admiring	Hate	Hating	Pass	Passing
Admit	Admitting	Hear	Hearing	Pay	Paying
Advise	Advising	Help	Helping	Perform	Performing
Agree	Agreeing	Hide	Hiding	Plan	Planning
Allow	Allowing	Hit	Hitting	Play	Playing
Answer	Answering	Hold	Holding	Point	Pointing
Apologize	Apologizing	Hope	Hoping	Practice	Practicing
Apply	Applying	Hug	Hugging	Prefer	Preferring
Appreciate	Appreciating	Hunt	Hunting	Prepare	Preparing
Argue	Arguing	Hurry	Hurrying	Pretend	Pretending
Arrange	Arranging	Identify	Identifying	Prevent	Preventing
Arrive	Arriving	Imagine	Imagining	Print	Printing
Ask	Asking	Improve	Improving	Produce	Producing
Attack	Attacking	Include	Including	Promise	Promising
Avoid	Avoiding	Increase	Increasing	Protect	Protecting
Bake	Baking	Influence	Influencing	Prove	Proving
Balance	Balancing	Inform	Informing	Provide	Providing
Believe	Believing	Insist	Insisting	Pull	Pulling
Belong	Belonging	Introduce	Introducing	Push	Pushing
Blame	Blaming	Invite	Inviting	Put	Putting
Borrow	Borrowing	Join	Joining	Qualify	Qualifying
Break	Breaking	Jump	Jumping	Question	Questioning
Breathe	Breathing	Keep	Keeping	Reach	Reaching
Bring	Bringing	Kick	Kicking	Read	Reading
Build	Building	Kill	Killing	Realize	Realizing
Burn	Burning	Kiss	Kissing	Receive	Receiving
Buy	Buying	Knock	Knocking	Recognize	Recognizing
Call	Calling	Know	Knowing	Recommend	Recommending
Carry	Carrying	Laugh	Laughing	Reduce	Reducing
Catch	Catching	Learn	Learning	Refuse	Refusing
Celebrate	Celebrating	Leave	Leaving	Relax	Relaxing
Change	Changing	Lend	Lending	Remember	Remembering
Check	Checking	Lie	Lying	Remove	Removing
Choose	Choosing	Lift	Lifting	Repair	Repairing
Clean	Cleaning	Like	Liking	Repeat	Repeating
Climb	Climbing	Listen	Listening	Replace	Replacing
Close	Closing	Live	Living	Report	Reporting
Collect	Collecting	Lock	Locking	Represent	Representing
Come	Coming	Look	Looking	Require	Requiring
Compare	Comparing	Lose	Losing	Rescue	Rescuing
Compete	Competing	Love	Loving	Respect	Respecting
Complain	Complaining	Make	Making	Rest	Resting
Complete	Completing	Manage	Managing	Result	Resulting
Consider	Considering	Marry	Marrying	Return	Returning
Continue	Continuing	Match	Matching	Ride	Riding
Cook	Cooking	Mean	Meaning	Ring	Ringing
Copy	Copying	Measure	Measuring	Rise	Rising
Correct	Correcting	Meet	Meeting	Roll	Rolling
Count	Counting	Mention	Mentioning	Run	Running
Cover	Covering	Miss	Missing	Save	Saving
Create	Creating	Mix	Mixing	Say	Saying
Cross	Crossing	Move	Moving	See	Seeing
Cry	Crying	Need	Needing	Sell	Selling
Cut	Cutting	Notice	Noticing	Send	Sending
Dance	Dancing	Offer	Offering	Serve	Serving
Decide	Deciding	Open	Opening	Set	Setting
Decorate	Decorating	Order	Ordering	Shake	Shaking
Deliver	Delivering	Organize	Organizing	Share	Sharing
Depend	Depending	Paint	Painting	Shine	Shining
Describe	Describing	Park	Parking	Shoot	Shooting
Destroy	Destroying	Pass	Passing	Show	Showing
Develop	Developing	Pay	Paying	Shut	Shutting
Die	Dying	Perform	Performing	Sing	Singing
Disagree	Disagreeing	Plan	Planning	Sit	Sitting
Discover	Discovering	Play	Playing	Sleep	Sleeping
Discuss	Discussing	Point	Pointing	Slide	Sliding
Dislike	Disliking	Practice	Practicing	Smile	Smiling
Divide	Dividing	Prefer	Preferring	Smoke	Smoking
Do	Doing	Prepare	Preparing	Solve	Solving
Doubt	Doubting	Pretend	Pretending	Speak	Speaking
Draw	Drawing	Prevent	Preventing	Spend	Spending
Dress	Dressing	Print	Printing	Spill	Spilling
Drink	Drinking	Produce	Producing	Spread	Spreading
Drive	Driving	Promise	Promising	Stand	Standing
Drop	Dropping	Protect	Protecting	Start	Starting
Dry	Drying	Prove	Proving	Stay	Staying
Eat	Eating	Provide	Providing	Steal	Stealing
Educate	Educating	Pull	Pulling	Stick	Sticking
Encourage	Encouraging	Push	Pushing	Stop	Stopping
End	Ending	Put	Putting	Study	Studying
Enjoy	Enjoying	Qualify	Qualifying	Suggest	Suggesting
Enter	Entering	Question	Questioning	Supply	Supplying
Escape	Escaping	Reach	Reaching	Support	Supporting
Explain	Explaining	Read	Reading	Suppose	Supposing
Explore	Exploring	Realize	Realizing	Surprise	Surprising
Express	Expressing	Receive	Receiving	Survive	Surviving
Fail	Failing	Recognize	Recognizing	Sweep	Sweeping
Fall	Falling	Recommend	Recommending	Swim	Swimming
Feed	Feeding	Reduce	Reducing	Swing	Swinging
Feel	Feeling	Refuse	Refusing	Take	Taking
Fight	Fighting	Relax	Relaxing	Talk	Talking
Find	Finding	Remember	Remembering	Teach	Teaching
Finish	Finishing	Remove	Removing	Tell	Telling
Fit	Fitting	Repair	Repairing	Test	Testing
Fix	Fixing	Repeat	Repeating	Thank	Thanking
Fly	Flying	Replace	Replacing	Think	Thinking
Fold	Folding	Report	Reporting	Throw	Throwing
Follow	Following	Represent	Representing	Touch	Touching
Forget	Forgetting	Require	Requiring	Train	Training
Forgive	Forgiving	Rescue	Rescuing	Travel	Traveling
Fry	Frying	Respect	Respecting	Treat	Treating
Gather	Gathering	Rest	Resting	Trust	Trusting
Get	Getting	Result	Resulting	Try	Trying
Give	Giving	Return	Returning	Turn	Turning
Go	Going	Ride	Riding	Understand	Understanding
Grow	Growing	Ring	Ringing	Use	Using
Guess	Guessing	Rise	Rising	Visit	Visiting
Handle	Handling	Roll	Rolling	Wait	Waiting
Happen	Happening	Run	Running	Walk	Walking
Hate	Hating	Save	Saving	Want	Wanting
Hear	Hearing	Say	Saying	Warn	Warning
Help	Helping	See	Seeing	Wash	Washing
Hide	Hiding	Sell	Selling	Watch	Watching
Hit	Hitting	Send	Sending	Wear	Wearing
Hold	Holding	Serve	Serving	Win	Winning
Hope	Hoping	Set	Setting	Wish	Wishing
Hug	Hugging	Shake	Shaking	Work	Working
Hunt	Hunting	Share	Sharing	Worry	Worrying
Hurry	Hurrying	Shine	Shining	Write	Writing
Identify	Identifying	Shoot	Shooting	Yell	Yelling
Imagine	Imagining	Show	Showing	Zoom	Zooming
Improve	Improving	Shut	Shutting	Achieve	Achieving
Include	Including	Sing	Singing	Adapt	Adapting
Increase	Increasing	Sit	Sitting	Affect	Affecting
Influence	Influencing	Sleep	Sleeping	Arrange	Arranging
Inform	Informing	Slide	Sliding	Assign	Assigning
Insist	Insisting	Smile	Smiling	Assume	Assuming
Introduce	Introducing	Smoke	Smoking	Attach	Attaching
Invite	Inviting	Solve	Solving	Attempt	Attempting
Join	Joining	Speak	Speaking	Attract	Attracting
Jump	Jumping	Spend	Spending	Avoid	Avoiding
Keep	Keeping	Spill	Spilling	Balance	Balancing
Kick	Kicking	Spread	Spreading	Ban	Banning
Kill	Killing	Stand	Standing	Belong	Belonging
Kiss	Kissing	Start	Starting	Blame	Blaming
Knock	Knocking	Stay	Staying	Borrow	Borrowing
Know	Knowing	Steal	Stealing	Break	Breaking
Laugh	Laughing	Stick	Sticking	Breathe	Breathing
Learn	Learning	Stop	Stopping	Bring	Bringing
Leave	Leaving	Study	Studying	Build	Building
Lend	Lending	Suggest	Suggesting	Burn	Burning
Lie	Lying	Supply	Supplying	Buy	Buying
Lift	Lifting	Support	Supporting	Call	Calling
Like	Liking	Suppose	Supposing	Carry	Carrying
Listen	Listening	Surprise	Surprising	Catch	Catching
Live	Living	Survive	Surviving	Celebrate	Celebrating
Lock	Locking	Sweep	Sweeping	Change	Changing
Look	Looking	Swim	Swimming	Check	Checking
Lose	Losing	Swing	Swinging	Choose	Choosing
Love	Loving	Take	Taking	Clean	Cleaning
Make	Making	Talk	Talking	Climb	Climbing
Manage	Managing	Teach	Teaching	Close	Closing
Marry	Marrying	Tell	Telling	Collect	Collecting
Match	Matching	Test	Testing	Come	Coming
Mean	Meaning	Thank	Thanking	Compare	Comparing
Measure	Measuring	Think	Thinking	Compete	Competing
Meet	Meeting	Throw	Throwing	Complain	Complaining
Mention	Mentioning	Touch	Touching	Complete	Completing
Miss	Missing	Train	Training	Consider	Considering
Mix	Mixing	Travel	Traveling	Continue	Continuing
Move	Moving	Treat	Treating	Cook	Cooking
Need	Needing	Trust	Trusting	Copy	Copying
Notice	Noticing	Try	Trying	Correct	Correcting
Offer	Offering	Turn	Turning	Count	Counting
Open	Opening	Understand	Understanding	Cover	Covering
Order	Ordering	Use	Using	Create	Creating
Organize	Organizing	Visit	Visiting	Cross	Crossing
Paint	Painting	Wait	Waiting	Cry	Crying
Park	Parking	Walk	Walking	Cut	Cutting
Pass	Passing	Want	Wanting	Dance	Dancing
Pay	Paying	Warn	Warning	Decide	Deciding
Perform	Performing	Wash	Washing	Decorate	Decorating
Plan	Planning	Watch	Watching	Deliver	Delivering
Play	Playing	Wear	Wearing	Depend	Depending
Point	Pointing	Win	Winning	Describe	Describing
Practice	Practicing	Wish	Wishing	Destroy	Destroying
Prefer	Preferring	Work	Working	Develop	Developing
Prepare	Preparing	Worry	Worrying	Die	Dying
Pretend	Pretending	Write	Writing	Disagree	Disagreeing
Prevent	Preventing	Yell	Yelling	Discover	Discovering
Print	Printing	Zoom	Zooming	Discuss	Discussing
Produce	Producing	Achieve	Achieving	Argue	Arguing
Promise	Promising	Adapt	Adapting	Arrange	Arranging
Protect	Protecting	Affect	Affecting	Assign	Assigning
Prove	Proving	Attach	Attaching	Assume	Assuming
Provide	Providing	Attempt	Attempting	Attract	Attracting
Pull	Pulling	Avoid	Avoiding	Ban	Banning
Push	Pushing	Balance	Balancing	Belong	Belonging
Put	Putting	Blame	Blaming	Borrow	Borrowing
Qualify	Qualifying	Breathe	Breathing	Break	Breaking
Question	Questioning	Build	Building	Breathe	Breathing
Read	Reading	Bring	Bringing	Build	Building
Recognize	Recognizing	Call	Calling	Carry	Carrying
Recommend	Recommending	Catch	Catching	Clean	Cleaning
Refuse	Refusing	Choose	Choosing	Close	Closing
Regret	Regretting	Collect	Collecting	Cross	Crossing
Relax	Relaxing	Come	Coming	Cry	Crying
Remind	Reminding	Cut	Cutting	Dance	Dancing
Remove	Removing	Deal	Dealing	Drop	Dropping
Repair	Repairing	Describe	Describing	Dry	Drying
Repeat	Repeating	Decide	Deciding	Eat	Eating
Replace	Replacing	Drive	Driving	Educate	Educating
Report	Reporting	Enter	Entering	Enjoy	Enjoying
Rescue	Rescuing	Escape	Escaping	Explain	Explaining
Respect	Respecting	Expect	Expecting	Fill	Filling
Rest	Resting	Fail	Failing	Freeze	Freezing
Result	Resulting	Follow	Following	Forget	Forgetting
Return	Returning	Get	Getting	Grab	Grabbing
Ride	Riding	Hide	Hiding	Hit	Hitting
Run	Running	Hop	Hopping	Involve	Involving
Save	Saving	Invite	Inviting	Join	Joining
See	Seeing	Keep	Keeping	Knock	Knocking
Sell	Selling	Learn	Learning	Lead	Leading
Send	Sending	Love	Loving	Listen	Listening
Serve	Serving	Make	Making	Look	Looking
Set	Setting	Meet	Meeting	Master	Mastering
Shake	Shaking	Move	Moving	Mention	Mentioning
Share	Sharing	Need	Needing	Obey	Obeying
Shine	Shining	Open	Opening	Order	Ordering
Shoot	Shooting	Paint	Painting	Park	Parking
Show	Showing	Pass	Passing	Play	Playing
Sing	Singing	Pull	Pulling	Push	Pushing
Sit	Sitting	Put	Putting	Quit	Quitting
Sleep	Sleeping	Read	Reading	Respect	Respecting
Smile	Smiling	Run	Running	Sell	Selling
Speak	Speaking	Save	Saving	Sing	Singing
Stand	Standing	Say	Saying	Sleep	Sleeping
Start	Starting	Set	Setting	Speed	Speeding
Stop	Stopping	Take	Taking	Struggle	Struggling
Study	Studying	Think	Thinking	Teach	Teaching
Talk	Talking	Throw	Throwing	Thank	Thanking
Travel	Traveling	Try	Trying	Treat	Treating
Turn	Turning	Use	Using	Understand	Understanding
Visit	Visiting	Wait	Waiting	Value	Valuing
Walk	Walking	Watch	Watching	Visit	Visiting
Win	Winning	Work	Working	Worry	Worrying
Write	Writing	Yell	Yelling	Yield	Yielding
Zip	Zipping	Zoom	Zooming	Zigzag	Zigzagging

FAQs

What is a verb? 

A verb is a word that describes an action, state, or occurrence. For example, in the sentence “She runs fast,” “runs” is the verb because it shows the action being performed.

What are the three main forms of a verb? 

The three main forms of a verb are the base form, the past form, and the past participle. For instance, the verb “to eat” has the forms eat, ate, and eaten.

How do you use verbs in different tenses? 

Verbs change according to tenses to show when an action occurs. For example, “I eat lunch” (present), “I ate lunch” (past), and “I will eat lunch” (future) use different verb forms to indicate timing.

What is the difference between regular and irregular verbs? 

Regular verbs follow a standard pattern for forming the past tense and past participle (e.g., walk – walked – walked). Irregular verbs do not follow this pattern and have unique forms (e.g., go – went – gone).

How do you form the past tense of regular verbs? 

To form the past tense of regular verbs, add -ed to the base form (e.g., talk – talked). This rule applies to most verbs, making it simple to remember.

What is a verb’s past participle used for? 

A verb’s past participle is used in perfect tenses and passive voice. For example, in “She has finished her work,” “finished” is the past participle used to form the present perfect tense.

Can verbs have more than one past form? 

No, each verb typically has only one past form and one past participle. For example, “bring” has the past form brought and the past participle brought.

What are modal verbs and how are they used? 

Modal verbs like can, could, will, and might are used to express ability, possibility, or permission. For example, “She can swim” shows ability, while “It might rain” indicates possibility.

Conclusion

Understanding verb forms is crucial for mastering English grammar. By learning the base form, past form, and past participle, you can accurately convey actions and events across different tenses. Knowing the difference between regular and irregular verbs, as well as the use of modal verbs, will enhance your ability to communicate effectively. With practice, you’ll find that using verbs correctly becomes a natural part of your **