-t, -d or -id? | Past Tense -ED verb endings | English Pronunciation

want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com hi everybody my name is alicia today i'm going to talk about how to pronounce the ending e d sound in past tense regular verbs so i'm going to talk about how to make the three different sounds that we use um when we're using the past tense forms of these verbs so let's get started okay so uh as i said this is for regular past tense verbs 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 e-d ending verbs so past tense conjugations okay so there are three different pronunciations that we use for this ed 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 t ending sound so by this t i mean a t sound at the end of the verb so a few examples uh first is walked second talked and typed so walked talked typed you can hear the e d sound at the end of each verb it's spelled e d but the pronunciation is a t 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 t 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 here so these are called unvoiced sounds so um 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 activated 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 t sound we use this sound for infinitives which end in an unvoiced sound meaning our vocal chords are not activated so here as i said walk ends in a sound talk ends in a k sound and type ends in a sound so for k sounds and sounds our vocal chords are not activated we're not using our vocal chords to make this sound so we apply a t 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 d sound so a few examples i have smelled breathed whispered lied booed and kneed so in each of these you can hear there's this soft d sound for the ending not an e d sound ed but a d sound a soft d sound so in this case how do we know that we should use a d 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 uh the end of the infinitive form here smell is the infinitive so the ending sound requires vocal chord activation so i'm using my vocal chords to make an uh sound here same thing with breathe this th sound at the end the i have to use my vocal chords to make this sound next one whisper the er sound here uses my vocal cords so i'm using the d whispered we see the same thing the last three examples i have here use vowel sounds at the end so lied booed need these are voiced sounds so we need to use a d sound to end uh to end the word so this is when we use the d ending okay let's look at the last type over here the last type is this id ending it's like an id sound let's look at some examples so here i have wanted pleaded and started these are all examples of infinitives that end in a t or a d 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 uh start ends in a t sound as well so for infinitives which end in an or a d sound a t or a d sound we use this id ending so wanted pleaded started so these are the three types of ending ed sound pronunciations so if you're having trouble trying to decide how to pronounce an ed sound you can kind of think of these rules uh to help you i hope um 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 uh or here are the unvoiced consonant sounds so the unvoiced consonant sounds meaning the consonants that we make without using our vocal cords are ch and the th sound in think think so all of these sounds are unvoiced if we make these sounds we're not using our vocal chords to make them so sh 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 sound in the word like they uh is actually a voiced sound so we have a voiced they th sound they they and we have an unvoiced th sound like in think think so in the word think i'm not using my vocal chords 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 ed sounds i hope that that was helpful for you if you have any questions please let us know in the comment section below this video of course if you like the video please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some 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Length: 7min 40sec (460 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 24 2019