PRONUNCIATION OF REGULAR PAST TENSE VERBS
After all voiceless consonant sounds:
- /f/, /k/, /p/, /sh/, /ch/, /s/, /x/, except /t/
- Pronounce /t/
After all voiced consonant sounds:
- /b/, /g/, /j/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /r/, /v/, /z/, except /d/
- Pronounce /d/
After vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/
- Pronounce /d/
After /t/ and /d/:
- Pronounce /id/
Example:
/t/ | /d/ | /id/ | |
Ache | Advise | Love | Accept |
Ask | Agree | Mail | Add |
Cash | Answer | Measure | Afford |
Check | Appear | Mention | Anticipate |
Cook | Apply | Move | Appoint |
Cough | Arrange | Name | Appreciate |
Dance | Assume | Offer | Benefit |
Develop | Believe | Open | Collect |
Discuss | Belong | Order | Complete |
Dress | Borrow | Owe | Create |
Endorse | Burn | Own | Decide |
Establish | Buzz | Perform | Demand |
Finish | Call | Plan | Depend |
Fish | Cancel | Play | Deposit |
Fix | Carry | Please | Distribute |
Guess | Change | Prefer | Elect |
Help | Clean | Prepare | End |
Hope | Climb | Preserve | Estimate |
Introduce | Close | Propose | Exaggerate |
Laugh | Confirm | Prove | Expect |
Like | Conquer | Pull | Explode |
Look | Consider | Rain | Float |
Miss | Continue | Raise | Graduate |
Park | Control | Realize | Heat |
Pass | Cool | Receive | Imitate |
Photograph | Copy | Refer | Include |
Pick | Cover | Refuse | Insist |
Practice | Deliver | Release | Interest |
Produce | Describe | Remember | Invent |
Promise | Destroy | Remove | Irrigate |
Pronounce | Dial | Repair | Land |
Publish | Differ | Reply | Last |
Push | Disappear | Require | Mold |
Reach | Double | Reserve | Need |
Remark | Earn | Return | Omit |
Shop | Enable | Sail | Paint |
Talk | Enjoy | Satisfy | Participate |
Thank | Enter | Save | Pollute |
Type | Excuse | Seem | Predict |
Walk | Explain | Serve | Present |
Favor | Shave | Provide | |
Watch | Fill | Shovel | Present |
Wish | Flow | Show | Provide |
Work | Follow | Smell | Recommend |
Gather | Smile | Relate | |
Handle | Snow | Remind | |
Happen | Spell | Rent | |
Hurry | Stay | Repeat | |
Imagine | Suppose | Represent | |
Improve | Tie | Respect | |
Increase | Train | Rest | |
Join | Travel | Sound |
i remember of you doing this in the class for the presentation. a very important and good practice to improve our knowledge on correct pronunciation. :)
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