Past ed endings

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Past tense verbs in English

• The past tense with regular verbs is formed by • Adding –ED to the end of the verb.• Simple examples are:• to want=wanted

to ask= asked to rent = rentedTo close= closedTo relax = relaxed

There are three groups of pronunciation for the regular past ed verbs

‘d• called• arrived• Changed• Closed

‘t• stopped• asked• Missed• escaped

ed• Wanted• needed• Ended• Hated• invited

The three different groups of pronunciation

• The group with the most verbs is the ‘D

• The most important group to study is the ‘T group. Students have the most problems with the past-ed verbs that take the ‘t pronunciation

• The easiest group is the group with strong ed pronunciation

But how can we know how to pronounce the verbs correctly?

• The regular past tense verbs are formed with ed at the end.

• We must look carefully at the letter before the ed to learn to identify the kind of pronunciation

The most important group of the three.

‘T group

• This group is where we must focus the most.

• Students have most mistakes with this group.

• Let’s look in detail at how we can learn to identify the verbs in the ‘T group

The most important group of the three.

‘T group

• The first rule to identify this group to look closely at the letter of the verb before we add –ed.

• The most important letters are :

S K P

The most important group of the three.

‘T group

• The first rule to identify this group to look closely at the letter of the verb before we add –ed.

• The most important letters are :

S K P

S K P

S• Missed• Dressed• Promised• Impressed• kiss

K• worked• Talked• Walked• asked• Looked• Cooked• joked

P• stopped• helped• kept• Jumped• Hoped• developed

S K P

S

• MissedK

• WorkedP

• Stopped

We must learn to look at which letter comes before the -ed

•MissWhen we have an S before the ed

We take a regular verb that ends with the letter S

•MissedWhen we have an S before the ed

We add ed to make it past

•MissedWhen we have an S before the edWe must identify the letter before the ED. When we see the S it creates a T sound

•Miss’tWhen we have an S before the edTo practise we must take the present tense and add a T sound.

•workWhen we have an k before the ed

We take a regular verb that ends with the letter k

•workedWhen we have an S before the ed

We add ed to make it past

•workedWhen we have an S before the edWe must identify the letter before the ED. When we see the S it creates a T sound

•Work’tWhen we have an k before the edTo practise we must take the present tense and add a T sound.

•stopWhen we have an k before the ed

We take a regular verb that ends with the letter P

•stoppedWhen we have an S before the ed

We add ed to make it past

•stoppedWhen we have an S before the edWe must identify the letter before the ED. When we see the P it creates a T sound

•stoppedWhen we have an k before the edTo practise we must take the present tense and add a T sound.

sh c+ ch x

sh

• Washed• Brushed• pushed

c+ ch

• Advanced• Placed• Pronounced• watched

x

• Fixed• mixed

T D

t

• accepted• visited• expected

d

• Needed• Decided• included

The ED group

T D

t

• accepted• visited• expected

d

• Needed• Decided• included

The ED group

•WantWhen we have an T before the ed

We take a regular verb that ends with the letter P

•WantedWhen we have an T before the ed

We add ed to make it past

•WantedWhen we have an S before the edWe must identify the letter before the ED. When we see the T it creates an ED sound

•NeedWhen we have an D before the ed

We take a regular verb that ends with the letter D

•neededWhen we have an D before the ed

We add ed to make it past

•NeededWhen we have an S before the edWe must identify the letter before the ED. When we see the T it creates an ED sound

The final group: the ‘d group

• Once we learn the two most important groups the T group and the ED group we can see all other verbs with any other consonant

•callWhen we have any other consonant before the ed we get a ‘d sound

We take a regular verb that ends with the letter D

•calledWhen we have an any other consonant before the ed

We add ed to make it past

•Call’dWhen we have an any other consonant before the ed

We must imagine that the E dissappears