t d or id Past Tense ED verb endings English Pronunciation
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hi everybody my name is Alisha today I’m
going to talk about how to pronounce the
ending EE D sound in past tense regular
verbs so I’m going to talk about how to
make the three different sounds that we
use when we’re using the past tense
forms of these verbs so let’s get
started
okay so as I said this is for regular
past tense verb so verbs which take an e
d ending verbs which don’t take an e d
ending in the past tense I’m not going
to talk about those in this lesson just
edie ending verbs so past tense
conjugations okay so there are three
different pronunciations that we use for
this edie sound I’m going to talk about
each one and kind of a rule that can
help you as you try to decide the best
or the most correct pronunciation okay
let’s first look at a tea ending sound
so buy this tea I mean 8:00 sound at the
end of the verb so a few examples first
is walked second talked and typed so
walked talked typed you can hear the IDI
sound at the end of each verb it’s
spelled IDI but the pronunciation is it
sound so walked talked typed we make a T
sound so the rule for this why do we use
the T sound here when we’re looking at
the infinitive form of the verb so
remember the infinitive form is like the
basic form of the verb I have it
underlined in black here if the
infinitive ends in an unvoiced sound we
use this tea pronunciation so I’ll talk
about unvoiced in just a moment here but
in this case the infinitive forms are
walk talk and type walk talk and type so
the ending sounds are end here so these
are called unvoiced sounds so for this
point and for some points in the rest of
this lesson it’s useful to know the
difference between a voiced sound and an
unvoiced sound so a voiced sound
is a sound that we make using our vocal
cords so the if you put your hand on
your throat and you can feel your vocal
cords moving like activate it
that’s a voiced sound an unvoiced sound
however is a sound we make without using
our vocal cords something that doesn’t
require us to activate our vocal cords
so I said in this case for the to sound
we use this sound for infinitives which
end in an unvoiced sound meaning our
vocal cords are not activated so here as
I said walk and Zanic sound talk and the
neck sound and type ends in a sound so
for sounds and sounds our vocal cords
are not activated we’re not using our
vocal cords to make this sound so we
apply a sound for the end of the verb
when we’re conjugating into past tense
so this is the first type of
pronunciation for today okay let’s look
at the second type for today the second
type is this D ending sound and by D I
mean it like a soft sound so a few
examples I haven’t smelled breathed
whispered lied booed and need so in each
of these you can hear there’s this soft
D sound for the ending not an e d sound
e d but a sound a soft sound so in this
case how do we know that we should use a
sound at the end of these in this case
we should use this sound for infinitives
which end in a voiced sound so as we
learned up here voiced sounds are sounds
that require us to activate our vocal
cords so in this case the end of the
infinitive form here smell is the
infinitive so the ending sound ooh
requires vocal cord activation so I’m
using my vocal cords to make a move
sound here
same thing with breathe the this th
sound at the end the I have to use my
vocal cords to make this sound next one
whisper the earth sound here uses my
vocal cords so I’m using the whispered
we see the same thing the
last three examples I have here used
vowel sounds at the end so lied booed
need these are voiced sounds so we need
to use a sound to end to end the word so
this is when we use the ending okay
let’s look at the last type over here
the last type is this id ending it’s
like an idiot
sound let’s look at some examples so
here I have wanted pleaded and started
these are all examples of infinitives
that end in it or a sound so here the
infinitive form of my first example want
ends in a T sound my second example
plead ends in a D sound and my third
example start ends in it sound as well
so for infinitives which end in it or
add it sound a T or D sound we use this
eed ending so wanted pleaded started so
these are the three types of ending II D
sound pronunciations so if you’re having
trouble trying to decide how to
pronounce an e d sound you can kind of
think of these rules to help you I hope
but if you want to know like which
sounds are unvoiced or which sounds are
voiced if it’s hard for you to determine
like when you are using your vocal cords
or when you’re not using your vocal
cords here’s a quick tip so here are
some or here are the unvoiced consonant
sounds so the unvoiced consonant sounds
meaning the consonants that we make
without using our vocal cords are and
the th sound and think think so all of
these sounds are unvoiced if we make
these sounds we’re not using our vocal
cords to make them so for example and
and these are common ones but we’re not
actually using like our voice to make
them so that means that voiced sounds
are the other sounds so if it’s not in
this list
it’s a voiced sound one thing to be
careful of here though is that the th
in the word like they is actually a
voiced sound so we have a voiced Vey th
sound they they and we have an unvoiced
th sound like in think I think so in the
word think I’m not using my vocal cords
in the word they or the for example I am
so th has a voiced and an unvoiced
pronunciation so this is something to
keep in mind and maybe to help you as
you practice but these are the three
pronunciation types for ending edie
sounds I hope that that was helpful for
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