Learning how to pronounce past tense -ed verbs is not so difficult once you know the rules and have had a little practice.
To begin, it is important to first understand that there are 3 ways that we pronounce -ed ending verbs: 1) with a ‘t’ sound, 2) with a ‘d’ sound, and 3) with an ‘id’ sound.
I have given the rules below along with lists of common ‘t’, ‘d’, and ‘id’ sounding verbs for your convenience.
-Look for opportunities to speak to native speakers of English. Interaction with others will improve your speaking ability.
It's important to build your confidence. If possible, use simple English sentence structure that you know is correct, so that you can concentrate on getting your message across.
Do and make are two verbs commonly confused by English learners. This is usually because it’s not always clear why some words go with do and others go with make. Therefore, here are some generalizations that you can use to help determine when to use do and and when to use make.
First impressions
Pronunciation is definitely the biggest thing that people notice when you are speaking English. Let us tell you a personal anecdote about this:
We once went to a conversation class taught by native speakers (Americans). Before the class started, the teacher said to us: "So, do you speak good English?". Tom replied "We think so", and the guy said "It sure sounds like you do".
Notice that we just said three words, and the teacher could already tell if our English was good or bad. Why did the teacher think our English was good? Because of the difficult words we used? No. Because we used advanced grammar structures? No. It was our pronunciation.
Speech anxiety, or public performance anxiety, is very common. In this article you will be given common sense ideas as well as a few exercises to help calm the nerves and reduce the worry so that each additional speech you present will be an even easier and more comfortable experience.
Generally speaking, we use in, on, and at in the following ways:
