http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aVowels+tag%3aPronunciation+tag%3aVerbsSearch results for 'tag:Vowels tag:Pronunciation tag:Verbs' matching tags 'Vowels', 'Pronunciation', and 'Verbs'en-USXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/DoAmericansPronounceFortyFordiForti/2/ggjcd/Post.htm#535840Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:34:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:535840sumryanMy 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, water 2. when a ‘t’ comes before a syllabic /l/ sound in words such as: petal, metal, settle 3. in past tense verbs ending in ‘t’ such as: educated, excited, defeated 4. in comparative adjectives ending in ‘t’ such as: greater, greatest, smarter, smartest There may be other patterns or rules as well. Good luck with this. Susan <link removed by a mod.>http://www.englishforums.com/English/SayAndSays/zhmld/post.htm#457186Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:40:54 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:457186pterCalifJim wrote: I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. I am indeed looking for something like irregular verb forms. The comparison with bays, days, etc. is just a remark. But what is intriguing is that says is not an irregular verb. It is formed by just adding an s . It's just a "normal" third person singular verb. That's why I find it strange and exceptional. As a comparison, go and went sound completely different and the spelling are completely different. Could it be possible that says was not spelt this way in the past? It would also be interesting if we can find a "normal" plural form that sounds completely differently from the singular form. CalifJim wrote: again and against also have ai as a lax e...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SayAndSays/zhmld/post.htm#456769Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:58:08 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:456769califjimI cannot find any word with ay or ai that is pronounced this way, except those with -says or -said at the end. I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. again and against also have ai as a lax e , if that's what you want examples of. And all the air combinations also have ai as a lax e . pair, hair, fair, ... And those with aire : debonaire, millionaire, questionaire, solitaire, ... __________ aisle (with silent s and silent e ) has ai as tense i . (Same pronunciation as I'll .) ai is tense i also in Sinai and Shanghai . plaid has ai as lax a . (As if plad , to rhyme with sad .) dais has two vowels: tense a and lax i . ( day -iss) So does the old form saith (and the -aic 's: laic,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheWordBaby/cqrvq/post.htm#304561Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:11:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:304561kooyeenI hear that very often. I guess that phenomenon has something to do with lazy pronunciation, since I heard it mostly in songs, especially in rock or metal songs where singers shout and don't articulate the words properly. While I'm writing this post, I'm listening to a song where you can notice that clearly, Paradise City by Guns 'n' Roses: "Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty" ---- the y in city and pretty is not the same sound as the vowel in the verb lead . The one in city tends to the vowel sound in lid , the same applies to the one in pretty , but it even tends to the vowel sound in led . The fact is that I listen so much to that kind of music that I practically never...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImDesperateINeedHelp/dwrkz/post.htm#290103Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:39:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:290103tartan8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even though the o in o-n-e is a vowel. So a must be used before one . 9. Miss Justine Fair listened to the two Chilean students read their passages. One of them had a strong accent . The second student had no accent at all. Who got the best mark? Why? (Focus on a Phonetic explanation) Accent is a form of mispronunciation, of giving vowels and consonants different values from their standards. Mastery of a language requires control over the sounds of the language. 10. One of the...http://www.englishforums.com/English/BasicWordsListClassifiedVowelSounds/dczpg/post.htm#262386Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:29:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:262386feathersCalifJim wrote: er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of a word) is also pronounced the same as those above. learn, heard, search, rehearse, pearl Except: beard (as if beerd), heart (as if hart), hearth ( as if harth) our followed by a consonant has the same pronunciation in only a few words. journal, journalist, adjourn, adjournment, tourney, tournament, courtesy, courteous CJ This is thorough... ! It helps me a lot. Thank you. What I need now is -- practice. Let's adjourn to another forum...http://www.englishforums.com/English/BasicWordsListClassifiedVowelSounds/dczpg/post.htm#262381Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:06:50 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:262381feathersMister Micawber wrote: Here are a few: alert, avert, berserk, blur, blurt, burn, burst, burl, churn, circle, curt, curse, curds, colonel, curl, concern, discern, dessert, dirk, earn, erstwhile, exert, fern, fertile, girl, gird, hurt, hearse, hurtle, heard, insert, inert, jerk, kernel, lurk, learn, myrtle, myrrh, nurse, overt, occur, perk, perverse, purse, perquisite, purl, pearl, pert, quirk, return, reverse, recur, refer, skirt, shirt, spurt, squirt, stern, stir, tern, turn, turtle, thermometer, urn, vertical, version, verse, verb, word, work, worse, Xerxes, yurt, and zircon . P er fect ...! Oh...! You are so kind! I cannot thank you enough, MM! CalifJim wrote: Feathers, I'm a little puzzled by your...http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsItAMatterOfPhonology/dbqgq/post.htm#260469Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:36:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:260469califjimIt sounds a little more like morphology, but I could be wrong. There are numerous cases where a particular alternation between two vowels (or consonants) occurs in this way. They occur in both the Germanic and Latinate components of English. find - found; bind - bound; grind - ground; pride - proud; mice - mouse keep - kept; sleep - slept; weep - wept pronounce - pronunciation; announce - annunciation require - request; inquire - inquest conjoin - conjunction retain - retention; detain - detention; abstain - abstention extrude - extrusion; include - inclusion; protrude - protrusion erode - erosion; invade - invasion; provide - provision; decide - decision; conclude - conclusion convert - conversion; pervert -...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SameVowelSound/cxbcx/post.htm#236672Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:24:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:236672califjimYes. er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of a word) is also pronounced the same as those above. learn, heard, search, rehearse, pearl Except: beard (as if beerd), heart (as if hart), hearth ( as if harth) our followed by a consonant has the same pronunciation in only a few words. journal, journalist, adjourn, adjournment, tourney, tournament, courtesy, courteous CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HowPronounceAmericanEnglish/cmzmk/post.htm#229523Sat, 27 May 2006 06:03:19 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:229523califjimI'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 t , as you seem to suggest in your post. I don't recommend imitating this pronunciation unless you live in a community where it is very common. Use a neutral or slightly aspirated t instead. There is an exception -- the verb "want". "want to" and "want a" are both pronounced "wanna" if you are speaking fairly fast in an informal setting. The past tense is often said "wannid". "wanted to" is often "wannida". I don't see any great...http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnOffOfOff/bhrqk/post.htm#118217Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:39:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:118217teacher ericScience_guru wrote: Sweety_pudding wrote: i think of and off just looks like earchother.. I don't agree with this. In fact I don't see any relation between "of" and "off" "of" is a preposition e.g. President of America, son of Mr. List. "off" is an adjective meaning "not in operation" eg. Turn off the computer. The lights are off. I found following meaning when it is used as adverb "From particular thing, place or position" -- they drove off "No longer on or in contact" eg. clear off the dirt SG Even the pronunciation is different. Final sound for "off" is "f". For "of" it's "v" when the word comes before a vowel sound, and "uh" or "ah" (as in sorta = sort of) when it comes...http://www.englishforums.com/English/RunNingRelatedPronunciation/bcckh/post.htm#94439Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:18:45 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:94439xcatsHi abbie1948 ! You are nice,thank you ^_^ "Verbs ending in one stressed vowel" How can I know of that? Could you teach me more and suggest some good websites for me to learn? Thanks again !!http://www.englishforums.com/English/RunNingRelatedPronunciation/bcckh/post.htm#94140Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:38:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:94140abbie1948Hi 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 —wondered visit — visited gallop—galloped Verbs endingin -e: add -d hope —hoped decide —decided Verbs ending in one stressed vowel +one consonant (except wory): double the consonant and add -ed shop — shopped plan — planned refer —referred regret — regretted Verbs ending in consonant + -y: hurry— hurried change y to i and add-ed cry—cried study—studied Verbs ending in-c have ck in the past (e.g....http://www.englishforums.com/English/WasVsWere/nmqx/post.htm#67741Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:12:13 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:67741just the truthIncorrect(or informal): If I was you, I would run. JT: I'd imagine that you've copied this from a grammar site, Victorycountry. isnot incorrect, merely an informal variant. Since it's perfectly grammatical, it's impossible for it to be incorrect. The CGEL notes that has been used in this manner for about 300 years. How could it even be suggested that it's incorrect? That would make singular and all the other changes that have occurred in language over the centuries also incorrect. Is the pronunciation of all ENLs, so different from that before the great vowel shift, wrong? Such a notion is truly preposterous but these old canards go on and on. Correct: If I were you, I would run. (The verb follows if and expresses a...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestLanguageToTeach/3/vbxp/Post.htm#42280Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:35:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:42280guesti'd say english helps you a lot . for instance when you don't know a verb but you know the name, for instance " she's got a graceful walk" and " walk the talk ". In my opinion what makes english hard is pronunciation and idioms. Especially the pronunciation of vowels which are not flat but sort of blended together. is culture "ko'lcher" or "kahlcher?" in my humble opinion esperanto is a pretty easy language if you know at least one germanic language, and one romance language. Actually to me it sounds like Rumanian or Corsican. I still can't decide whether English or German is the hardest... tut mir leid.http://www.englishforums.com/English/StrongWeakSoundsVerbs/hmqg/post.htm#38171Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:21:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:38171novaleeSome words, not only verbs, that are used a lot in speaking, have one weak sound and one strong sound. Weak forms are used in 'connected speech', that is, when you are having a normal, everyday conversation or when they are in the middle of a sentence. For example, the weak form of the verb 'have' is /hev/ or /ev/, e being the unstressed sound called 'swcha' (usually written as an inverted 'e'), which you can hardly hear. This form is mostly used when the verb 'have' is functioning as an auxiliary verb as in They have been doing the hovering or in sequences such as should have , could have , would have . Strong forms are normally used when we say a word isolated from speech with an emphasis on the vowel. These forms are used by...http://www.englishforums.com/English/NorthernSouthernEnglish/dwpj/post.htm#34946Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:03:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:34946novaleeWell, latha, generally speaking, the rule says that between two vowels the sound must be pronounced /z/, as well as when you write and and sometimes . If it is next to consonants or it is written as a sibilant, then it must be pronounced /s/. For instance, has an /s/ sound. However, , or have a /z/ sound. But there are exceptions and such other factors as the surrounding sounds, that make this rule not too trustful. But there are some smaller rules applied to certain cases. The third person singular -s pronunciation varies according to which sound is found at the end of the verb. If it is a voiceless sound /p/ /t/ /k/ /f/ /sh/ /th/(strong) or /ch/ then the sound is /s/. If it finishes in a voiced sound, it is /z/. And, finally, if it's...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ComplexityOfGrammar/6/bdjh/Post.htm#7126Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:16:45 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:7126pemmican>>e) o/e(a/e) - e - e to dream - dreamt - dreamt to kneel - knelt - knelt to hold - held - held to leave - left - left to bereave - bereft - bereft to sleep - slept - slept Oops, I'm sorry! Also these verbs actually belong to the weak ones (except "to hold")! -> regular ending -t. The short pronunciation of the vowel is another assimilization, but no Ablaut as mentioned in the other rows!http://www.englishforums.com/English/ComplexityOfGrammar/6/bdjh/Post.htm#7118Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:04:12 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:7118pemmicanHello ssittoesl! >>eg. go went gone. In Chinese, you supplement the word "GO" with additional word if you want to say someone "has gone" etc.. The integrity of the word "GO" is preserved. Hehe, interesting you just picked out a very irregular verb of the English language! The reason why "to go" is that irregular is because it consists (similar to "to be") of two different stems: The actual past form should be something like "gid", equal to "to do", but it has been replaced by the past tense form of the former strong verb "wend": to wend - went - went, which then became a weak verb: to wend - wended - wended. The reason why it has been replaced was certainly due to the fact that "went" has or had a very similar meaning...