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Unit 4. THE MASS MEDIA
Pronouncing Past Tense Verbs
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The past simple tense and past participle of all regular verbs end in -ed. For example:
work, worked, worked
In addition, many adjectives are made from the past participle and so end in -ed. For example:
I like painted furniture.
The question is, how do we pronounce the -ed? The answer is, in 3 ways:
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/ɪd/
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/t/
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/d/
* Note that it is the sound that is important, not the letter or spelling. For example, fax ends in the letter x but the sound /s/; like ends in the letter e but the sound /k/.
[Exceptions] The following -ed words used as adjectives are pronounced with /ɪd/:
aged, dogged, ragged, blessed, learned, wicked, crooked, naked, wretched
Listen and repeat each three-word series. Choose ONE word in each group that has a different -ed sound than the others.
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