Look at the Difference in terms of Usage

What do you mean? What do you want to say/write? Winning or wining Starring or staring Tapping or taping Bidding or biding There is a formula to use in differentiating between these sets of words that look the same but sound differently. Once the verb ends with an e, then the continuous tense will have one consonant. But if it ends with a consonant, that last consonant must be doubled to get the continuous tense. The same rule applies if the past tense or past participle of the word ends with a "d." Examples Win - winning, won; wine - wining, wined to star (in a movie) - starring, starred; stare - staring, stared Tap - tapping, tapped; tape - taping, taped Bid - bidding; bidded; bide - biding, bided So a name like "Vining" in Archbishop Vining Memorial Church Cathedral must always be spelt with one "n", because it was taken from "vine". Once you make the "n" double, you change the pronunciation by implying that the root word is "vin". You can practise by writing the continuous/past forms of these verbs: 1. Dine 2. Fan 3. Rape 4. Rap 5. Scrape 6. Scrap 7. Scare