Sound is Key to English Language.
Sound is Key to English Language.
I bought a boat.
English is mainly about how things sound. English unlike other languages you repeat orally what you hear and not what you read. That's why pronunciation has a certain degree of importance. That is why sometimes native speakers have to "tune in" to our way of speaking English.
An ESL student might want to say "I bought a car" and the native might hear "I boat a car".
Regardless of getting the correct idea from context, what a native hears when you speak, is "boat" not "bought", same with "choose" and "shoes".
Sound is also the key to correctly pronounce regular verb endings ( "ed" endings ).
There's 3 different sounds to indicate that a verb is in the past tense. It all depends on.....
The final Sound of the original verb
The verb "want" has a final "t" sound (regardless of the written letter)
The verb "need" has a final "d" sound (regardless of the written letter)
The verb like has a final "k" sound ( regardles of ending in a written "e")
Here's where the "ed" trip begins. The pronunciation of the final "ed" ending of regular verbs changes in 3 different ways according to the final sound of the original verb.
Pronunciation
When the Final Sound of the original word is "K" - "P" - "S" - "ch/sh" the ed becomes a "T".
> Wash - Washed
> Pass - Passed
> Work - Worked
> Stop - Stopped
( remember we double the final consonant when the original word has a Consonant-vowel-Consonant combination as in "stop".
When the Final Sound of the original word is "D" - "T" the ed becomes an "ID".
> Want - Wanted
> Need - Needed
> Visit - Visited
> End - Ended
The rest of the final sounds will usually go "D".
> Listen - Listened
> Play - Played
> Copy - Copied
> Prefer - Preferred ( double rr, CVC combo)
Remember that the "y" becomes "i" when there's a consonant-y combination as in "copy". When there's a vowel-y combination, there's no change.
English is mainly about how things sound. English unlike other languages you repeat orally what you hear and not what you read. That's why pronunciation has a certain degree of importance. That is why sometimes native speakers have to "tune in" to our way of speaking English.
An ESL student might want to say "I bought a car" and the native might hear "I boat a car".
Regardless of getting the correct idea from context, what a native hears when you speak, is "boat" not "bought", same with "choose" and "shoes".
Sound is also the key to correctly pronounce regular verb endings ( "ed" endings ).
There's 3 different sounds to indicate that a verb is in the past tense. It all depends on.....
[b]The final Sound of the original verb[/b]
The verb "want" has a final [em]"t"[/em] [b]sound[/b] (regardless of the written letter)
The verb "need" has a final [em]"d"[/em] [b]sound[/b] (regardless of the written letter)
The verb like has a final [em]"k"[/em] sound ( regardles of ending in a written "e")
Here's where the "ed" trip begins. The pronunciation of the final "ed" ending of regular verbs changes in 3 different ways according to the final sound of the original verb.
[em]Pronunciation[/em]
When the [b]Final Sound [/b] of the original word is "K" - "P" - "S" - "ch/sh" the [em]ed[/em] becomes a "T".
> Wash - Washed
> Pass - Passed
> Work - Worked
> Stop - Stopped
( remember we double the final consonant when the original word has a Consonant-vowel-Consonant combination as in "stop".
When the [b]Final Sound [/b] of the original word is "D" - "T" the [em]ed[/em] becomes an "ID".
> Want - Wanted
> Need - Needed
> Visit - Visited
> End - Ended
The rest of the final sounds will usually go "D".
> Listen - Listened
> Play - Played
> Copy - Copied
> Prefer - Preferred ( double rr, CVC combo)
Remember that the "y" becomes "i" when there's a consonant-y combination as in "copy". When there's a vowel-y combination, there's no change.
I bought a boat.
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