Guardian71
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- Jan 6, 2011
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- Chinese
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- Malaysia
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- Malaysia
Dear Teachers of the World,
I started teaching not long ago and have, in my research into Phonetics, came across the rules of pronouncing verbs in the past tense. From what I understand, we only pronounce the 'ed' in verbs ending with /t/ and /d/ sounds such as; want - wanted, generate - generated, detect - detected, etc.
Otherwise, we do not (like prepared, ignored, etc.)
What about the word crooked? The word crook does not end with a /t/ or /d/ sound, yet we give it the additional sound of /id/ in crooked.
Please advise. Thank you.
Guardian71
I started teaching not long ago and have, in my research into Phonetics, came across the rules of pronouncing verbs in the past tense. From what I understand, we only pronounce the 'ed' in verbs ending with /t/ and /d/ sounds such as; want - wanted, generate - generated, detect - detected, etc.
Otherwise, we do not (like prepared, ignored, etc.)
What about the word crooked? The word crook does not end with a /t/ or /d/ sound, yet we give it the additional sound of /id/ in crooked.
Please advise. Thank you.
Guardian71