Are you still difficult to pronunce verbs in past form (Regular) in ending -ed?
almost students in primary, junior event senior high school still make some mistakes when read a text that consists of irregular verb ending ed.
In this article, the writer feel excited to share this important point which will make your pronunciation be upgraded so that you don't wonder and doing the same mistakes again.
If you want to pronunce regular verbs, there are three ways of sounding the -ed. You may use (t, d or id) sound. how does it works?, lets elaborate it.
'T' Sound
This sound will be used if you find some words in ending by letters of sounding voiceless. What is a voiceless?, most of word that will be sounding appearing in your lips without using your throat. it means the sound is voiceless. Example of voiceless such as in sounding (p, k, tp, ph, th, ch, s, se, sh). if there is a regular verb that ending by that sound for its basic form, you must pronunce the -ed be (T) SOUND.
Example:
-Watch-ed = the -ed must be pronunced by (t) Sound.
-Kick-ed = the -ed must be pronunced by (t) sound.
-Look-ed = the -ed must be pronunced by (t) sound
'd' Sound
Another sound for pronunciating the ending -ed is 'd'. this sound only for regular verbs that has sounding of voiced sound in its basic form. What is voiced? you are going to use your throat to produce that sound such as for sounding (m, n, o, b, g, z, j, r) and the others.
Example :
-Accompani-ed= the -ed must be pronunced by 'd' sound.
-Admir-ed = the -ed must be sounding by 'd'
-Ador-ed = the -ed must be sounding be`d'
'id' Sound
this is the most simple and the easiest to pronunce. if you find a word especially for regular verb that ending by letters (t and d) in its basic form, you can pronunce the -ed be sounding 'id'.
Example :
-Want-ed = the -ed will be sounding in 'id' sound
-Decid-ed = the -ed will be sounding in 'id' sound
-Adopt-ed =the -ed will be sounding in 'id' sound
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