Name: 3 Simple Pronunciation Tips Past Tense English Verbs
Uploaded: 2018-08-20T03:35:07.000Z
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to help you improve your English pronunciation.

Actually, I'll share a couple of tips but they all relate

to the pronunciation of past tense regular verbs.

Now the spelling of regular verbs is easy!

You just take the regular verb and you add a D or an -ed

Or if the verb actually ends in a Y, then usually

we replace that Y with an I and then add -ed

But the pronunciation of these simple verbs

but that's okay we're going to spend some time today

that you need to remember to help you pronounce

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And one more thing, if you haven't watched my lesson

Since we're talking about regular verbs in this lesson,

it will be helpful to compare the pronunciation

between regular verbs and irregular verbs.

So check it out after you watch this lesson.

So for regular verbs, the form is the same

in the past simple and the past participle forms.

is that there are actually three different ways

to pronounce the -ed at the end of a past tense verb.

The good news is there are three simple rules

to remember that will help you to pronounce

so this is an unstressed vowel sound and it creates an

extra syllable which is always unstressed.

So the sound is short and it's low in pitch.

And it's pronounced like this when the regular verb,

in its infinitive form, ends in a T or a D sound.

the extra unstressed vowel sound makes them

The other two ways to pronounce the past tense

regular form don't include that vowel sound

which means that it doesn't create this extra syllable

and it does create a cluster of consonants

at the end of the word and as many of you know,

that's a group of consonants, can often be

When a verb in its infinitive form ends in a voiced

Well I've already got a lesson that explains

this in more detail right here, but I'll give you

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