Past tense

[society]

Scar – blemish, mark

Scared – petrified, frightened

How do you spell the past tense of scar?

[I.Don No]

scarred?

[alexanderd]

scarred

[chrissa1]

Yes, two r's.

[Sqad]

scared

[mike11111]

The rule is that when a monosyllabic word ends in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, the final consonant is doubled before adding any ending such as -ing or -ed.

[Bbbananas]

scarred, silly :-)

[society]

Yes, two rr s. Thanks folks!

And which is correct - folk or folks?

[Sqad]

oopps! sorry you want the past tense of scar......thought you wanted scare.....sorry............scarred.

[wolf63]

If there is a word that I am not sure about I just rephrase the sentence - simple!

[society]

Great tip Mike. Thanks.

[MarkRae]

> The rule is...

Apart from when that final consonant is a 'y' e.g. pray - prayed - praying

[ethandron]

scarred:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scarred

[alexanderd]

I think I would always use folk as in "the folk who live on the hill"

[society]

Wolf, I tried that and thought of substituting another word but... :-)

I wanted to use it here in place of scared. - http://www.theanswerb...2.html#answer-5466670

[mike11111]

Y, like W, is not a true consonant, more a semi-vowel.