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Welcome to A to Z English podcast, where today we're going to talk about some grammar, but more specifically than grammar, it's actually pronunciation and grammar a little bit combined here.
And so Jack, what's the idea for today with this grammar pronunciation point?
Yeah.
So in English, as you know, when we use the past tense, we often add ed to the end of the word or to the end of the verb or regular verbs.
For normal verbs, we just add the ed.
That's right.
There are a lot of irregular verbs in English, but we'll leave that for another podcast.
So today we're going to focus on regular past tense verbs.
And so when we have the regular past tense ed added to the verb, there are actually three different pronunciations.
And so.
Yeah, which is confusing.
English has a lot of very confusing pronunciation things.
Yeah.
As a matter of fact, sometimes some ed past tense verbs don't even have a d sound.
And so that's, English is not a phonetic language.
It really isn't.
It makes it very difficult for learners to know how to read and how to pronounce things.
Exactly.
So I thought we could start with the, the first one sound.