By Vowels, Past tenses

Hi. On TV you may not hear the sounds, the tongue-play within the chamber of the mouth and the tiny air stops, etcetera that occur when people speak. You need to be face-to-face with your pronunciation coach.I can well see how you "hear" FAX for facts, because the sounds are about...

My students always have questions about this pronunciation feature. I know of four patterns that might help you predict where to pronounce 't' as a soft /d/.1. when a ‘t’ is between vowels when the preceding vowel is stressed in words such as: city, party, forty, water2. when a ‘t’ comes...

So then it's a consonant, I suppose.But then what are we to make of the people who wrote the rule on forming past tenses when they said:If a word ends in a single stressed vowel and a single final consonant (hop, sip, etc., and like bow or cow, presumably, if w is indeed a consonant), then...

HiIs "when" always /wɛn/? Is the vowel never reduced to a schwa, so that is it /wən/?And is "where" always "w-air", /wer/, and never reduced to something similar to "were" (past tense of the verb "to be")?Thanks

Hi , this post is about ED in past tenses in which it is pronounced T. So the question is, when ED follows an unvoiced sound, is it always pronounced like a T? Look at this: I jumped. -------- I jumpt (ok, everybody knows) I jumped out. ---- I jump tout / I jump dout (uh-oh! and now? is it a...

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The absence of the t sound here is not an aspirated...

May I know all the words that ... use 'd as a shortcut? I take it you want to know which words the 'd can possibly be a substitute for. Only would and had normally fall into this category, if you're looking for full words (the 'd in cont'd being an abbreviation for the past tense ending...

Hi, John :- She was playing the piano Me:- I thought she was sleeping or I thought she is sleeping ??? Say 'was'. The earlier past tense places the timeframe in the past. the second example I drove an LS1 Camaro or I drove a LS1 Camaro? Say 'an'. When you pronounce 'L' as Ell', it starts with...

Hi Xcats, This is related to the spelling of the past tense forms of regular verbs; it also applies to the "ing" form. spelling of regular affirmative past tense forms Most regular verbs: add -ed work —worked help —helped start — started rain —rained stay —stayed show — showed wonder...

If you need a detailed description for American English, here's something I came across in some old notes of mine. It's got some exercises at the end too! The phonetic transcriptions aren't really anything standard, but I think you can figure them out. Past tense of Regular Verbs Phonetic...