Too often when people say the past tense, whether they say the word 'worked' or 'tried' or 'landed', they don't necessarily know how to pronounce the ending because there are three ways to do it. So, let's have a quick look at this in today's post.

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Hello, my YouTube fans. How are you? I am here today because I wanted to share a little bit with you about the final past tense with -ed. So often when people say the past tense, whether they say the word worked or discussed or longed or landed, they don't necessarily know how to pronounce the ending because there's three ways to do it. So, let's have a quick look at this.

Okay. You should see the screen here and let me get my pointer. The final - ed so there's three different ways. One way to pronounce the final -ed is like a /t/ sound. The other is like a /d/ sound. And the third way is where we actually get an extra syllable, right?

So, we have the /t/ the /d/ and the -ed. So let's read this. If the final sound in the present tense verb is voiceless. If the final sound in the verb is voiceless, we're going to talk about that, then the -ed is pronounced like a /t/ sound. So what does voiceless mean? Well, if we look at this sound, It's a /k/,/k/,/k/. It's not a /g/,/g/,/g/.

It's not there's no, there's no vocalization. It's called a voiceless sound. /k/. So when we have a verb that ends in a voiceless sound like the /k/ sound. We just match that with the /t/ sound, which is also voiceless. /t/,/t/,/t/.

It's not a /d/ /d/, right? It's a /t/. So we say, walk, walk -t.

One syllable. We're not adding another syllable. Now, if the final sound in the present tense verb is voiced like arrange.

G G G

That G sound is a voiced sound. We use the vocal chords. We need to match that with the /d/ sound, because /d/ /d/ is also voiced. So we say arrange and then arranged. And we just close it with that /d/ And then if the final sound in the present tense verb is a /t/ or a /d/.

That is when we add the syllable, like here round rounded. There's an extra syllable. It's very important because you can't, you can't, for example, take the /t/ or the /d/ and say it twice. We can't say round -d rounds, right? We can't match that /d/ with the /d/.

We need to add a vowel sound, that schwa sound. Rounded. So let's look at a couple more of these. Answer /r/ /r/ voiced answered. We get the /d/ sound. We get this the /d/ answer -d. Arrive. We have a voice here. Arrived. We get a /d/ sound. Book. There's that /k/ sound.

We're going to add a /t/ aren't, we? Booked. Here's another call /l/ that /l/ sound called. We add the voiced /d/ sound. Here's one more check. Voiceless. What do we have to attach it to? /T/ checked.

And then here's an example where we add a syllable. Decided, right? Decided.

We add the syllable because we can't say the /d/ two times. Now, what I will, what I will say is why don't you take a screenshot? Okay. Why don't you take a screenshot on the left-hand side, and then you can work with my worksheet.

Go ahead, take a screenshot and go ahead and work with that. If you want to take a screenshot on the left, you can also practice reading the words in paragraph form, but remember, you need to know if the past tense, if the verb in the present tense ends and a voiced or voiceless sound so that, you know, if you're going to add the /t/ or the /d/.

And then if the verb ends in a /t/ or a /d/ you're going to add that extra syllable. So be careful. Learn your rule, practice, record yourself, read out loud, and you're going to get this.

All right. I'll see you around. Bye. Bye.