The key answer of exercise 4
The key to exercise solutions in chapter Vocabulary in action 7 for the textbook Wider World 3 - Student's Book with authors Carolyn Barraclough and Suzanne Gaynor from Pearson Education
Question
Listen to the underlined letters and decide how they are pronounced. Listen again and repeat. What is the rule for pronouncing the final -d sound?
Answer
- bored /d/
- crowd /d/
- dressed /t/
- married /ɪd/
- stressed /t/
We pronounce the final -d as
- /ɪd/ in words ending in -ted, -ded
- /d/ when the preceding sounds in a vowel, a voiced consonant or the sound /r/, /n/, /m/, /l/
- /t/ if the preceding sound is /s/
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