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EL BOLETIN DE INGLES AMERICANO PREFERIDO POR LOS HISPANOPARLANTES |
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OM News # 91 - Delivered to 40139 subscribers |
ISSN 1668-4877 November 1, 2004 |
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November 15. |
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Brand new listening section to
be included -with additional stories- in our next audio CD. Dr.
DeLator, a detective from San Francisco, has some mysteries to solve. You
will find here sound files with full transcriptions, bilingual glossaries,
and the solutions. OM DETECTIVE
provides wide possibilities for ESL students and teachers.
Just
click on the images and
try to solve the four cases
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PRONUNCIATION OF -ED.
Used as
the
ending on the
simple past
tense of regular
verbs,
there
are three ways of pronouncing it, depending on the final sound
(voiceless or voiced) of the
verb. Let us see... |
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T? D? |
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1.
It
is
pronounced
-ID
on verbs ending with the consonants t and d:
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2. After voiceless consonants f, k, p, s, sh, ch, or th [soft], the final –ed is pronounced -T: laugh laughed (la:ft); pick picked (pikt); sip sipped (sipt); mess messed (mest); fish fished (fisht); match matched (macht). |
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3.
After
voiced consonants b, g, j, l, m, n,
z, v, ng and th [hard], plus all vowel
and diphthong sounds, it is pronounced
-D: |
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next update: november 15, 2004 |
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