Hi guys and welcome back to Love English. So today you might think it's a simple
lesson but it's actually something you guys really make mistakes with and it
really doesn't matter which nationality you are, these two letters and three
sounds always confuse you. How do you say these three words? finished not finish/id/
kicked not kick/id/ stop stopped not stop/id/. So what you often do is add the
extra syllable on the end of regular verbs. In this lesson I'm going to
explain the pronunciation rules to help you pronounce it correctly with regular
verbs (in the past tense). If you haven't already subscribed, then make sure you do! There are lots
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of ED!
So there are three pronunciations of ED /t/, /d/ and /id/. So the main issue here is when
you add /id/ which is in fact an extra syllable, on to the end of regular verbs
and indeed many adjectives. So the mistakes you make are finish/id/ stop/id/
finish/id/ and stop/id/. Other mistakes I frequently hear when it comes to /t/ and
/d/ the pronunciation is so similar that it doesn't matter too much which you use,
but I will be explaining that. So for /id/ the extra syllable. We add /id/ to regular
verbs when the final sound on the verb is /t/ or /d/. Let's look at some examples.
wait-waited, decide- decided, want- wanted, need- needed, end- ended ,educate- educated. so
there you can see that some of the verbs actually end with an e the letter e but
the pronunciation is /t/or /d/.educate- educated, decide-decided. So there are the
rules for adding it not too bad because there's only two sounds that you have to
remember. Now moving on to /t/ and /d/. Now /t/ and /d/ are very similar and in fact sometimes
when I pronounce words they really... there's not a big difference. Firstly, it's
to do with voiced and unvoiced consonants. A voiced sound is a sound
where you put your hands on your vocal cords on your throat and there's a
vibration the vocal cords vibrate. So for example /b/ /b/ /b/ whereas similar
sound. /p/ /p/ /p/ ..no vibration. So first of all voiced consonants. At the end of regular
verbs, when we have a voiced consonant. These include: /d/ /g/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /r/ /v/ /z/ /ʤ/ and /ð/ we would add /d/!
Including in this are vowel sounds. So for example; play /eɪ/ played, stay -stayed.
There we've got vowel sounds at the end and so we add /d/ . Let's look at some
examples of regular verbs that have these sounds at the end rub-rubbed, rob-robbed,
beg- begged, call-called, pull pulled, tame- tamed, tan- tanned, purr-purred. Purr is how
cats sound. purrr.... I can't do it pal loved loved realize realized judge
judged babe bathed okay so with those consonant sounds those voiced consonant
sounds you would add do so top therefore makes sense
you need unvoiced consonant sounds unvoiced where there is no vibration the
sounds include Shh and let's have a look at some examples
laugh laughed kick kicked talked talked trip tripped miss missed kiss kissed
finish finished can you hear that finished not finish it watch watched
burst burst so there you can see Edie pronounced as let's have a quick test to
see if you can follow those rules March marched play played massage massage
bang-bang rent rented please please please exist existed fish fished helped
helped snow snowed try tried decide decided what worked right guys I think
that's enough practice for now review the lesson if you need to to improve
your pronunciation of regular verbs but don't forget we've got plenty of
irregular verbs and if you would like to improve those as well then you can check
out some of our pronunciation lessons thank you so much for watching I look
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