THE PRONOUNCIATION OF ‘-ED’ ENDINGS

PRONUNCIATON RULES

O modo de pronunciar o -ed nos verbos no passado dos verbos regulares é determinado pela terminação surda (sem vibração das cordas vocais) ou sonora (com vibração das cordas vocais) do infinitivo ao qual o ed é acrescentado, assim:

1.     When a verb ends in “t” or “d”, the past aquires a new syllable and sounds /id/.

2.     When a verb ends in an unvoiced sound (p, k, f, th (q), s, sh, ch), the past –ed sounds /t/

3.     When a verb ends in a voiced soud (all the vowels and b, g, v, z, dz, m, n, ng (h), r, l, th (ð), w, y) the past –ed sounds /d/

EXERCISE: Change into past and separete the following verbs in three colums, according to the -ed sound:

Wait    stop     add      use      end      boil     like      comb   brush   live     laugh   dress watch            answer study   end      play    

/d/	/id/	/t/