Daily English - Day 20

For example, paint, painted, decide, decided, help, helped, ask, asked, sometimes it appears at the end of an adjective, such as interested, bored, occupied, so how do we pronounce the E-D? There are three pronunciations of the E-D, and they are id, and for verbs that end in a t or d sounds, when the E-D is added, it is pronounced as id. For example, want, wanted, end, ended, test, tested, need, needed. Very easy, isn't it? Alright, let's move on with the next pronunciation of the E-D ending. It's important to remember that the pronunciation of the E-D depends on the last sound of the verb or adjective, and not the last letter of the word. Therefore, don't just look at the word, but you need to speak it out to see what the sound is at the end. In this case, when verbs end in these sounds, or voiced sounds, the E-D is pronounced as t. For example, stop, stopped, stop, laugh, laugh, laughed, laughed, fix, fixed, fixed, washed, washed, washed, washed, watch, watched, watched, look, look, looked, looked. Now, when the last sound of a verb is not one of the sounds mentioned above, the E-D is pronounced as, here are some examples. play, played, play, allow, allowed, allowed, beg, peg, begged, pegged, clean, clean, cleaned, cold, cold, cold, cold, amused, amused, amused. Now I have some quizzes for you to make sure you understand what we've just learnt clearly. Before we start, I will repeat the ways we can pronounce the E-D one more time. Verbs that end in a t or d sound, the E-D ending is pronounced id. When verbs end in unvoiced sounds, k, the E-D is pronounced as k. And verbs or adjectives ending in none of the sounds above, the E-D is pronounced d. Alright, let's do a little quiz. Question 1. How do we pronounce the E-D in this word? The answer is t. The verb bake ends with a k sound. So when the E-D is added, it's pronounced baked. Question 2. How do we pronounce the E-D in this word? Collect. Do you know what sound does collect end with? Collect ends with the t sound. So the correct answer is id. Collected. Let's move to the next question. Question number 3. Which one of these words has the E-D pronounced as d? Pulled. The correct answer is pulled because pull ends in l. Let's read the words out loud with me. Created. Pulled. Kissed. Question 4. Which one of these words has the E-D pronounced as t? Love. Then. Open. Then. Did you choose danced? If you did, you are correct. The verb dance ends with a s sound. So dance with the E-D is pronounced as danced. The other two words have the E-D ending pronounced d. Practice with me. Loved. Opened. Last question. Which word is pronounced differently from the others? Need. Talk. All right. Congratulations to those who chose needed. Need ends with the d sound. So the E-D is pronounced as id. Needed. While talk and laugh end with the k and th sounds. So the E-D is pronounced t. Talked. Laughed. That's all.