eatting
Incorrect spelling, explanation: this form is incorrect because eat plus ing is not eatting but eating; there is no reason to double the consonant. We do double the last consonant when adding a suffix in case of a consonant-vowel-consonant situation at the end of the word. Here we have vowel-vowel-consonant so we don’t double the last consonant. Therefore the correct form is eating.
eating
Correct spelling, explanation: there is just one t in eating because this is a verb eat with suffix -ing. The only situation where we need to double the last consonant is when it’s preceded by a consonant and vowel. Here there are two vowels, so it’s not eatting but eating.
Definition of eating:
verb, gerund form of eat, to ingest, to consume
Look, your dog is eating something strange!
I love eating cheese but I’m mildly allergic to dairy.
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Nadejda Blagodarnaya
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(399604)
5 лет назад
eating-две гласньiе и t не удвaивается.
soffkaГуру (2618)
5 лет назад
спасибо за разумное объяснение!
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Gabriel Eilhart
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(39539)
5 лет назад
Конечно первое.
soffkaГуру (2618)
5 лет назад
почему? это же односложный глагол оканчивающийся на 1 гласную и одну согласную..
Gabriel Eilhart
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(39539)
Потому что это так. И точка.
pixiedarko
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(2153)
5 лет назад
первый вариант
soffkaГуру (2618)
5 лет назад
почему? это же односложный глагол оканчивающийся на 1 гласную и одну согласную..
мастер шести путей
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(25471)
5 лет назад
первый вариант
Наталья Громик
Ученик
(218)
2 года назад
Eating-есть, eatting-жрать
The English language has no universal rule for when to double a consonant
before the suffix “-ing”.
As evidence that there is no universal rule,
consider the word “travel.” It ends consonant-vowel-consonant,
but both the forms “travelling” and “traveling” are widely used.
Writers of US English usually write “traveling”
(but sometimes write “travelling”), while other writers usually
write “travelling” (but sometimes write “traveling”).
In short, there are educated, literate, native English speakers
using the spelling “traveling” as well as the spelling “travelling”;
which spelling they use is correlated with (but not completely determined by)
whether they are considered “American English” writers.
The word “happen” also ends consonant-vowel-consonant,
but almost everybody writes “happening” rather than “happenning”,
“editing” rather than “editting”,
and “orbiting” rather than “orbitting”.
The explanation I recall from grade school for why we double the final
consonant of certain words when adding certain suffixes
(such as “-ed” or “-ing”)
because to add the suffix without doubling the final consonant
would cause the preceding vowel to change from a short vowel to a long vowel.
Compare the “silent E” rule that explains the difference
in pronunciation between “cap” and “cape”, between “kit” and “kite”,
or between “not” and “note”, and observe what happens when a
“silent E” word takes the suffix “-ing”:
the final “silent E” is deleted and “-ing” substituted in its place,
for example, “to bite” becomes “biting”.
In fact:
- “siting” is a form of the verb “to site”;
- “planing” is a form of the verb “to plane;” and
- “stoping” is a form of the verb “to stope”.
I never knew “stope” was a word until I researched this question,
but I was fairly sure that if it were a word, it would rhyme
with “hope” (which it does),
and that “stoping” would be pronounced differently from “stopping.”
That is how strong the “silent E” rule is in English.
The “silent E” rule and the rules for doubling the final consonant after
a short vowel are weakened when the final syllable is not stressed.
For example, “approximate” can rhyme with “mate” or
be a near-rhyme with “mitt”, depending on whether it is a verb or an adjective (at least in US English).
Likewise, we have already seen the lack of a doubled consonant before “-ing”
in “happening”, “editing”, and “orbiting”.
And of course even with stressed syllables there are pesky exceptions,
such as “living” and “giving” (forms of the verbs “live” and “give”, which also break the “silent E” rule).
- eating,
Существительное
мн. eatings - eat,
Глагол
ate
/ eaten
/ eating
/ eats
Склонение существительного eating[ˈi:tɪŋ] 
еда, пищевой, потребление
Singular
Common case
eating
eatings
Possessive case
eating’s / eating’
eatings’
Plural
Спряжение глагола eat[i:t] есть, съедать, съесть
Все формы
IndefiniteContinuousPerfectPerfect ContinuousInfinitivesParticiples
Present Indefinite
I eat
you eat
he/she/it eats
we eat
you eat
they eat
Present Perfect
I have eaten
you have eaten
he/she/it has eaten
we have eaten
you have eaten
they have eaten
Present Continuous
I am eating
you are eating
he/she/it is eating
we are eating
you are eating
they are eating
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been eating
you have been eating
he/she/it has been eating
we have been eating
you have been eating
they have been eating
Past Indefinite
I ate
you ate
he/she/it ate
we ate
you ate
they ate
Past Continuous
I was eating
you were eating
he/she/it was eating
we were eating
you were eating
they were eating
Past Perfect
I had eaten
you had eaten
he/she/it had eaten
we had eaten
you had eaten
they had eaten
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been eating
you had been eating
he/she/it had been eating
we had been eating
you had been eating
they had been eating
Future Indefinite
I will eat
you will eat
he/she/it will eat
we will eat
you will eat
they will eat
Future Continuous
I will be eating
you will be eating
he/she/it will be eating
we will be eating
you will be eating
they will be eating
Future Perfect
I will have eaten
you will have eaten
he/she/it will have eaten
we will have eaten
you will have eaten
they will have eaten
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been eating
you will have been eating
he/she/it will have been eating
we will have been eating
you will have been eating
they will have been eating
Conditional Present
I would eat
you would eat
he/she/it would eat
we would eat
you would eat
they would eat
Conditional Present Continuous
I would be eating
you would be eating
he/she/it would be eating
we would be eating
you would be eating
they would be eating
Conditional Perfect
I would have eaten
you would have eaten
he/she/it would have eaten
we would have eaten
you would have eaten
they would have eaten
Conditional Perfect Continuous
I would have been eating
you would have been eating
he/she/it would have been eating
we would have been eating
you would have been eating
they would have been eating
Participles
eaten
eating
Infinitives
to eat
to have eaten
to be eating
to have been eating
Which is correct: Eatting or Eating
How to spell Eating?
Eatting
Incorrect Spelling
Eatting
Misspelling of eating.
Eatingadjective
Bred to be eaten.
‘eating chickens; eating quails’;
Eatingadjective
Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
‘Wait! That’s not an eating apple.’;
Eatingnoun
The act of ingesting food.
Eatingnoun
Food; cooking, cuisine.
‘I remember when we visited Aunt Martha’s house, we had some really good eating!’;
Eatingnoun
The act of corroding or consuming some substance.
Eatingnoun
The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
Eatingnoun
Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
Eatingnoun
the act of consuming food
Eating
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus.