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Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. Have you worked on your

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English yet today? Have you studied a lot? Have you

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ever wanted to improve your pronunciation? Work? Worked, study, studied,

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want wanted? Let's dive in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast Episode eight forty seven,

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How to pronounce past verbs eed. Thank you, thank you

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so much for joining me for another episode of the

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Happy English Podcast. Let me ask you something. Have you

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ever wondered why we say wanted with an ED sound

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in an extra syllable at the end, and we pronounce

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studied with a D sound at the end, but worked

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as like a T sound at the end. Well, today

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we're going to clear up that mystery. I'm talking about

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the pronunciation of ed in past tense verbs. Believe it

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or not, there are three different ways to pronounce the

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ED ending, and once you know the rules, it actually

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makes a lot of sense. And to do this we

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need to divide the verbs into three groups. In the

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first group of verbs, the ed has just a T

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sound like worked, I worked all day. This happens when

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a verb like work ends in a voiceless sound. That's

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a sound where your vocal chords don't vibrate. These are

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sounds like p, K, S, F or. Here are some examples.

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Laugh becomes laughed, watch becomes watched, drop becomes dropped, and

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pick becomes picked. So like, there's no extra syllable here,

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just a strong T sound at the end. Now, in

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the next group of verbs, that ED ending has a

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soft D sound like played the dog played with the ball.

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This happens when the verb ends in a voiced sound.

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That's when your vocal chords do vibrate. You pronounce ed

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as a D. These are sounds like B, G, v, L, M, N,

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r Z or vowel sounds. Here are some verbs that

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fit this group. Call becomes called, play becomes played, clean

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becomes cleaned, beg becomes begged, and study becomes studied. I

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know that last one is a bit tricky because of

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the Y at the end, but the sound is voiced,

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so it's just D no extra syllable. Okay. The third

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and final group is easy to remember. If a verb

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ends in the sounds T or D like in want

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or need. That's when you have to add an extra syllable,

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so want becomes wanted, need becomes needed, Invite becomes invited,

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Decide becomes decided. This is the only set of verbs

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where there is an extra syllable. You can hear the

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extra beat at the end want, wanted, need needed. The

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verbs in the other two groups don't have an extra syllable.

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So how can you remember all of this? Well, here's

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my trick. First, ask yourself does the verb end in

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a T or a D sound? If yes, use the

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id with an extra syllable wanted needed. If the verb

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doesn't end in a T or a D sound, listen

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to the last sound of the verb. If it's voiceless

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like p kf used T, laughed, watched, If it's voiced

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like b G, vowels m and used the D sound played, studied,

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and don't look at the spelling instead focus on the

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sound at the end. Okay, three simple rules, one tricky

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verb ending. But once you know the sound rules, English

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pronunciation gets a lot easier. And remember pronunciation is half

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listening and half doing, So why not listen to this

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podcast again to get these sounds of English in your

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