For instance, did you know that ‘crossed’ is supposed to be pronounced like ‘crossT’ and not ‘crossD’? The same thing applies to ‘kissed’, which should be ‘kissT when uttered and not ‘kissD. In other words, the ‘d’ that ends the words, marking the past tense, is not supposed to sound as D but T.
You can now imagine how many of such regular verbs you have mispronounced since you started speaking English! Regular verbs are those that we add ‘d’ or ‘-ed’ to when they change from the present to the past tense . There are many of them, including wed , harm , fart , shine and hope . On the other hand, irregular verbs reject the addition of ‘d’ and ‘-ed’. Instead, they exhibit irregular or unpredictable characteristics when they change to the past tense. Examples are sit , shoot , run , hurt , hit , beat , fly and lose .
The fact is that the past tense pronunciation of regular verbs can be tricky. It is easy to deal with them at the level of grammar, when show becomes showed and kill simply becomes killed – unlike irregular verbs when man becomes men and hurt remains the same even as past tense. When it comes to pronunciation, however, regular verbs exhibit some ‘funny’ traits.
Consider how ‘d’ is pronounced in ‘masked’ too: maskT, not maskD. However, it is not in all regular verbs that ‘d’ becomes ‘t’ when the past tense is articulated. Indeed, there are three patterns. The first is when the past tense marker ‘d’ is pronounced as D; the second, when pronounced as T; and the third, when pronounced as ID.When the ‘d’ is preceded by a voiced consonant, it should be pronounced as it is – D.
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