Spelling

Example
: She staid with her friend during the storm.
Correction: She stayed with her friend during the storm.

Stay is a regular verb and like all regular verbs forms its past participle by adding -ed. Writing from A to Z provides a list of common irregular verbs on pages 340-342.

Check the following resources for useful practice material: 1) Guide to Grammar and Writing, 2) Colleen Hildebrand's UCI Correction Symbols with hyperlinks.

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