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I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are
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Hi, I am beginning to learn english, so i am having troubles with the regular past tense -ed. Can someone recommend me a webpage where i can hear the pronunciation of verbs ending in ed? thanks in advance for your help.
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You mean, pronounced "usedta" and "hasta"? No, for "used to", I mean "useta" with the /d/ assimilated to /t/ (or, at least, to a voiceless (d), which isn't quite the same thing).. Good point, but
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james salsman
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Excuse me, I put 'Approaching' instead of 'Seizing'. Hi Ariel, Why don't you try the Cambridge Dictionary online? Just click in "show phonetics". :-) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Irma. BTW Mexican. Thanks, I am
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Robert Bannister redled: I do occasionally come across eût and fût, mainly as ... s's - pourvu que je l'assassasse, or something like that. That assassasse sounds as if it's about to morph into the famous German
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Robert Bannister redled: The past subjunctive in French is even more moribund. Schoolchildren ... subjunctive where the past subjunctive would be more strictly correct. I do occasionally come across eût and fût, mainly as a literary substitute for
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This pronunciation seems to have its popularity enhanced by ots ... service: "oblique" rhyming with "strike" and "prep a tory" for Your old nemesis Robert A. Hall, Jr., used that pronunciation when referring to tenses
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This pronunciation seems to have its popularity enhanced by ots use by President Eisenhower. He had a few pronunciations that strike the non-military as peculiar, but were standard in the service: "oblique" rhyming with
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In the recent discussion of the verb "use", meaning "to be accustomed", its use in the infinitive and the simple past tense were mentioned, but I don't recall that anyone mentioned its use in the past perfect tense. An
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bob cunningham
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Because, of course, it isn't. The positive and negative senses ... enough to both that you can get away with it. I'm familiar with your and Professor Lawler's point of view, but I'm also aware that it collapses in the face of
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