ED pronunciation t d or id pronounce PERFECTLY every time

hello everyone and welcome back to

english with lucy today i have a

pronunciation lesson for you please

remember that i’m teaching

rp received pronunciation i love it when

students come to me

with what seems to them to be

a massive problem

but i have a really

quick

easy solution and that’s what i have for

you today i am going to teach you how to

pronounce

words like these words that end in ed

because it’s not so straightforward we

have wanted

danced and saved

one tid

danced

saved

so there are three different ways that

we pronounce ed at the end of a word and

there are so many words that end with ed

we have the regular past simple verbs we

have the regular past perfect verbs and

we have many adjectives so it’s a bit

frustrating that we have three different

ways of pronouncing ed at the end of

words but i have a very simple trick

that you can use to instantly know

whether you end the word with id

whether you end it with

or whether you end it with

before we get started i want to tell you

about something very exciting

something that i have been working on

for years

over two years i’m only telling you

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then it’s likely that you’re interested

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telling you more so let’s get started

with the lesson i’m going to go through

the method with lots of examples and

then i have got an activity which is a

story which will allow you to put into

practice what you’ve learned it’s a bit

of a challenge so let’s see how you do

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let’s take a look at some root words

we have part

end

test

and need

all of these end in

so you’re going to notice with this

method it all depends on how the root

word

ends

with which phoneme or sound does it end

in this case

which are nearly always represented by

the letter t or the letter d

if a root word ends in t or d

the ed is pronounced as id

this means that it adds on an extra

syllable part

parted

end

ended

test

tested

need

needed

that is the easy part but what if a root

word does not end with t or d

well

does it end with a vowel a voiced

consonant

or an unvoiced consonant

if the root word ends with a vowel sound

or with a voiced consonant sound then

the root word ends with voice meaning

that when you produce that last phoneme

you can feel the vibrations in your

throat

if it ends with an unvoiced consonant

you cannot feel the vibrations in your

throat look at these four root words

we have

dine

love

comply

remember

dine

i can feel the vibration

love

i can feel the vibration

comply

that ends with a vowel sound and

remember

still with voice remember that in

received pronunciation if a word ends

with r the r is not pronounced in

american english you might say remember

er but in received pronunciation

remember

uh all of these root words end with

voice and the great thing is that we

match voice with voice if a word ends

with voice apart from the

then we match it with voice

so we add d on to the end

loved

dined

complied

remembered

it would actually be more difficult

to use

at the end because you’re moving from

voiced

okay so moving on to the root words that

end with an unvoiced consonant take a

look at these four we have

clap

kick

dance and wash

none of the endings have voice in them

just like we matched voiced with voiced

before

we match unvoiced with unvoiced so in

this case

e d is pronounced as

clapped

kicked

danced

washed

try ending these words with the d sound

in my opinion it’s a lot more difficult

so that’s the theory behind it all

looking at the last sound in the root

word and then working out what the next

sound should be

with root words that end in any sound

other than t and d

there is no extra syllable love is not

loved or loved

it’s loved

kicked isn’t kick head or kikid it’s

kicked no extra syllable but decide is

decided extra syllable test is tested

extra syllable some students prefer to

learn words through studying them in

lists and other students prefer to hear

them spoken and to practice to learn

them in practice we’re going to go

through both ways of learning them first

let’s look at the list version and then

i will tell you a story using the words

and you have to guess what the

pronunciation is

here are the sounds that come before

id as ed

decided

and here we have the sounds that come

before d

as e d

we have b

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as in

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as in

soothed

as in

called

and then i’ve included r just so you

know for american english pronunciation

that it would be followed by d

for rp it isn’t pronounced remembered

remembered it’s pronounced with a d

because it ends with a schwa vowel sound

which is voiced but in american english

the r is pronounced at the end of words

and it would sound something like

remembered

then we have the sounds that come before

azidi the unvoiced sounds

we have

as in helped

as in sniffed

laughed

as in

missed

danced

as in

asked i know some of my students

struggle with that sound the combination

asked

we have ch

as in

matched

as in

washed

as in

unearthed there aren’t many ed words

with the f at the end of the root word

now this rule also applies to adjectives

but there are many more exceptions

so some adjectives ending in

we have insulted

or beaded

adjectives ending in a voiced consonant

or a vowel

we have soothed or moved

and unvoiced consonants

distressed

astonished

there are lots of irregular adjectives

that don’t follow this rule and they

favor

id at the end

naked

wicked

jagged

rugged there is normally a g or k sound

at the end of the root word

but there are exceptions to the

exceptions

for example beloved

okay now it is time for the activity i

am going to read a story to you

it’s filled with words that end in ed

and each time i reach a word that ends

in ed

i’m going to stop for a couple of

seconds to give you the chance to say

how you think it might be pronounced

what ending you think it might have

count your scores and see how many you

get right share your results in the

comment section as i’ve told you before

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moved back to the uk to finish my

studies

when i

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eventually i simply

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it’s a person

have visited seville

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and that’s enough for me

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