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Hi again, I'm Adam. Welcome back to www.engvid.com.
Today's lesson is pronunciation again. We
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want to look at the way words that end in "ed" sound.
Okay? A lot of the people ask
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me how do different words sound because sometimes
they can't understand the "ed" ending; they
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don't hear it. Okay? That is because "ed"
ending words end in three different sounds:
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the "d", "de"; the "t",
"te"; the "id", "id". Okay?
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Now, how do you know when to use which? It
all basically works on the last sound before
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the "ed". If you go through the whole alphabet, you
can put every word into one of these categories.
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Let's start with a short one: "id". When a
word ends in "t" and you want to add the "ed"
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to it or when a word ends in "d" and you want
to add an "ed" ending to it, it's always going
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to sound like "id", "tid", "did", "wanted", "founded".
Why? Because "t" and "d" are too
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close to that last sound of "d", so we need an
extra little sound, an extra little syllable
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almost to separate the two sounds. "Wanted",
"founded", "found", "founded". Okay? So those
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are those two.
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Next, we'll go to the "t" sound. When a...
The last letter, when a word ends in a "s"
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sound, the last letter is an "s" or an "x"
in this case, then this... The "d" sounds
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like a "t". Again, hard to switch the tongue
in time to get the "d" sound, we get the "t":
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"fixed", "kicked', "dropped", "sniffed". Okay?
"Fixed", "kicked", "dropped", "sniffed". "s",
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"k", "p", "f" ending sounds go
with a "t" ending for the "ed".
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Most of the other sounds come into the "d" sound.
"Managed", "fired", "halved", "jogged",
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"filled", "doomed", "fined". "j" or "g", soft
"g", "r", "v", "g" - oh, that's the hard "g",
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that's a soft "g"
- "l", "m", "n". All of these words that end... Words that end in
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these sounds, add the "ed", sounds like a "d".
"Managed", "fired", "halved", "jogged",
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"filled", "doomed", "fined".
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Let's go over the whole list again. "Managed",
"fixed", "wanted", "founded", "kicked", "fired",
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"halved", "dropped", "sniffed", "jogged",
"filled", "doomed", "fined". Okay?
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That's all there is to it. Practice these.
Any word that you get that you... That has
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an "ed" ending, you're not sure how to pronounce
it: which category is it in? What is the last
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letter or the last sound before the "ed"?
Find out which category it's in, that's your
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ending sound. Okay?
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