Lesson 10: past tense (endings). Aug 4th, 2005

On this show we used the past tense and in particular we talked about the sounds of the 3 types of “ed” endings on past tense regular verbs

pronunciation of regular past tense endings
“t” sound: walked, shopped, cooked/
“d” sound: learned, played, exercised/
“id” sound: visited, invited, departed/

Both sides of the pond
(US) eraser/ [bad word] (US) maths/(UK) math
(US) elementary school/(UK) primary school
(US) principal/(UK) headmaster, headmistress