Hello and welcome back.
Today we are going to talk about word endings now word endings are a really important part of English
that's often overlooked by non-native English speakers in this lesson.
I'm going to talk about the pronunciation of a really common ending in English and that's the DE
as you know regular past tense verbs and in E-D in English.
But don't forget that some adjectives also and in E-D native speakers may understand what you say if
you leave off or mispronounce the E-D ending but they also may get the impression that your command
of English is much lower than it really is.
And that's not a good thing.
You want to make sure you're projecting your most competent and confident self when speaking to others
especially with regards to your career.
Did you know that there are three different ways to pronounce the endings and you can't just choose
whichever pronunciation you like.
You need to know when each one is appropriate.
Now listen as I tell you a story.
Pay close attention to the pronunciation of the underlined words ending in e d.
What does the E D sound like.
I was heading into the local post office when I saw a young woman who had gone to school with my son
on her hip was her little daughter.
After talking for a few minutes she shared a story of her high school days with my son and we both smiled
just then.
Her little girl pointed up to the heavy folds of wrinkles around my eyes.
What are those.
She asked.
I smiled again and said they were laugh lines.
She looked at me for a second and then said You must laugh a lot.
On my way home that funny enlightening moment stayed in my mind.
Yes I thought to myself I have laughed a lot over the years I have smiled a lot too.
I have been blessed and if my heavy wrinkles are a sign of that then it's a sign I'm pleased to share
with everyone I meet.
Stop and replay the video until you're sure you can describe the pronunciation of the E-D words before
analyzing the pronunciation of these E-D endings.
However I want to briefly review with you the concept of syllables.
So what is a syllable.
Will a syllable includes only one vowel sound in English.
Do not confuse sounds with written letters because in English we can use two written vowel letters but
that may only be one sound.
Take a look at this example.
The words ran and rain.
Both are only one syllable words and have only one vowel sound.
Rand has that as sound and it's spelled with one single day.
Rain has an a sound and it's spelled Ay ay.
So you'll find that there are two written vowel letters in rain but only one vowel sound.
So each of these words is a one syllable word.
Here are some more examples.
The word dog has one vowel sound.
Ah so it's a one syllable word.
The word boy is a one vowel sound word but it has two written vowel letters Y pronounced on.
So it is also one syllable the word window has two vowel sounds and makes two separate syllables.
When doe you hear it.
Oh so two syllables.
One more example.
The word remember remember has three vowel sounds therefore three syllables.
You hear me at ur re member.
Three syllables so what.
Take a look at each of the different e the ending words from the story I just read you and I want you
to tell me how many syllables you hear in each of these words.
Now the first E-D ending word was shared.
Sherard.
This one has one syllable.
It may look like it should have two syllables but in fact we only pronounce the one vowel sound.
Err shared
smiled
smiled again there's only one vowel sound.
I
this one is a little bit different pointed pointed in this one we have two syllables.
You hear all the way in the first syllable and you hear an ad in the second pointed
one syllable at what
one syllable or stayed stayed one syllable a
one syllable and
one syllable.
Pleased pleased and again only one syllable.
In most cases the and the D is silent.
So what about that sound in the ending.
How does that sound.
Let's take a look.
In shared the D in the INI sounds like a deal sounds like a shared shared.
So just add that due to the our shared shared and smiled.
It sounds exactly the same.
Correct sounds like smiled the smile the How about this one.
Point in the aini is fully pronounced here.
Ed pointed.
Pointed sounds like Ed also ending in D.
Asked asked.
Here you hear something a little bit different.
The ending sounds like a tease.
Sounds like ass.
Asked asked what
did you hear it again.
It's a T.
Look look look.
You also notice there's a puff of air coming from my mouth.
With that the sound being a T looked stayed stayed.
Again this one has a de a D ending sting and
again you hear that that puff of air laugh.
L'Est again sounds like t pleased pleased pleased.
This one sounds like the ideal ending pleased.
So there are actually three different possible pronunciations for the ending.
It can be fully pronounced in some words like pointed.
It can be pronounced as De with the AB's silent like in shared smiled staid and pleased.
It can also be pronounced as with the E being silent as well like in the words as it looked last and
blessed in the next video you'll learn how to know when to use each of these different pronunciations
before proceeding.
Have a look at the Big Bang Theory VIDEOCLIP in Write down all the Edey ending words that you hear next
say each word right whether you hear a d t or for the pronunciation for each word ending in e d.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.