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Pronunciation of the ending -ed in the Simple Past

In the Simple Past we add -ed to regular verbs. Be careful pronouncing the verbs:

1) verbs ending in -ed preceded by p! "! f! y! s!# :

t#
$he -e is silent. %&ample: I stop - I stopped stpt#

') verbs ending in -ed preceded by b! g! v! z! th! l! m! n# or a vowel

d#
$he -e is silent. %&ample: I clean - I cleaned "li:nd#

() verbs ending in -ed preceded by t# or d#

d#
%&ample decide d#. $he -e changes to #. %&ample: I visit - I visited v)td#

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