NAME:_____________________________________________________________________________________________.
The three sounds for English past tense pronunciation are:
/id/
/t/
/d/
when it ends in
when it ends in
when it ends in
/t/
/d/
Voiceless sounds
Voiced sounds
/f/ /k/ /p//s/ /sh//ch/
Want / wanted
/b/ /g/ /l//m/n/ /r//v//z/
Clean
/cleaned
/ walked
Dream
/ dreamed
Finish
/
finished
Save
/saved
Kiss
/
kissed
Enjoy
/ enjoyed
Marry
/ married
Need / needed
Laugh
/
Decide /decided
Walk
Delicate / delicated
Laughed
The verbs ending in Y after a consonant make their past adding IED.
Consonant Y study- studied
Carry- carried
Marry- married
Try-Tried
The verbs ending in Y after a vowel make their past with YED
Vowel Y
play-played Stay-stayed pray-prayed
One-syllable verbs having consonant-vowel-consonant, double the last consonant and then add ED
Stop-stopped
Shop-shopped
Write /t/ /d/ or /ed/ for the pronunciation of each verb.
Worked
Called
Divided
Missed
Helped
Painted
Answered
Traveled
Beg-begged
Worked
Called
Divided
Missed
/t/
/d/
/ed/
/t/
Helped
Painted
Answered
traveled
/t/
/ed/
/d/
/d/