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How to pronounce – ed endings inEnglish? The past simple tense and the past particle of all regular verbs end in -ed.

Example :

Base verb – Wash

Past simple – Washed

Past participle – Washed

There are three ways of pronouncing the ed:-

1) /id/ – If the last sound to the word is /d/ or /t/ then the -ed will

sound like /id/

Examples:

  Started

  Ended

  Admitted

  Suggested

  Decided

2) /t/ – If the last sound of the word is unvoiced like /p/ , /f/, /s/,

/ch/, /sh/ and /k/ then the -ed sound is /t/

Examples:

  Stopped

  laughed

  kissed

  watched

  washed

  liked

!) /d/ – "or all the words that end with – ed and are voiced then the-ed is pronounced as /d/

Examples:

  Allowed

  Enjoyed

  Cleaned

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  Cried

  Imagined