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Let's have our second lesson about pronunciation.

Teachers teach (S) ending sounds in classes.
Today, we will look at three different sounds of (s) ending.

Note: The (S) ending has the following three pronunciation or sound depending on the last sounds of word:

RULES
1. After some voicelss consonant sounds (s) is pronounced as /s/ sound.

Voiceless consonant sounds
/f/, /k/, /p/, /h/, /t/
e.g. Stop, stops
Kite, kites
Walk, walks
Laugh, laughs
Pipe, pipes

2. After some voiced consonant sounds (s) is pronounced as /z/ sound.

Voiced consonant sounds;
/b/, /d/, /g/, /m/, /r/, /n/ etc.
e.g. Dog, dogs
Plan, plans
Kid, kids
Bulb, bulbs
Star, stars
Come, comes
Kill, kills
Note: After vowel sounds (s) is pronounced as /z/.
e.g. Go, goes
Play, plays

3. After /s/, /z/, /SH/, /CH/, /j/, /ZH/ sounds if we have (s) ending, we pronounce /iz/ extra syllable.

e.g. Pass, passes
Wash, washes
Watch, watches
Garage, garages
Judge, judges

Note: (S) ending refers to s, es, ies, ves, 's at the end of a word.

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Let's have our first lesson about pronunciation.

Teachers normally teach the regular and irregular verbs in classes.
Do you know the three different sounds of Regular verbs?

D Voicing
Note: (D) has the following three different sounds depending on the last sound of words.
1: /t/ voiceless sound
2: /d/ voiced sound
3/id/ extra syllable

1: /t/
If (ed) comes after voiceless consonant sounds except /t/ sound, it is pronounced as /t/ sound.

e.g. Pass, passed, passed.
stop, stopped, stopped.
walk, walked, walked.
dance, danced, danced.
Note: Keep in mind, letter is not important sound is important.

2: If (ed) ending comes after voiced consonant sounds apart from /d/ sound, it is pronounced as /d/ sound.

e.g. love, loved, loved.
kill, killed, killed.
listen, listened, listened.
learn, learned, learned (American English)
learn, learnt, learnt (British English)

3: If (ed) ending comes after /t/ or /d/ sound, it is pronounced as an extra syllable /id/.

e.g. Want, wanted, wanted.
decide, decided, decided.

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What is positive polarity clause?

If a word ends with /t/, and the next word starts with /j/ or letter /y/, we produce /ch/ sound.
e.g. You play cricket, don't you?
Note: In the above example, the word don't ends with /t/ sound, and the next word starts with /j/ sound or letter /y/, so we produce /ch/ sound.
e.g. They want you.
I got you.

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Good morning

If a word ends with /z/, and the next word starts with /j/ or letter /y/, we produce /zhhh/.
e.g. What is your name?
Note: In the above example, the is ends with /z/ sound, and the next word starts with /j/ sound or letter /y/, so we produce /zhhh/ sound.
e.g. How is your health?
What is your father's name?

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Some related terms in American accent.

Connected speech
1: If a word ends in /d/ sound, and the next word starts with /j/, we produce /dg/.
e.g Did you play cricket yesterday?
In the above example, the word did ends with /d/ sound, and the next word you starts with /j/ sound.
Note: letter is not important, thus sound is important.
Would you come to our party?

Underline the adjective clauses in the given examples below.

I love the girl that you love.

She bought a car which was so expensive.

They bought something which was cheap.

He knows someone who is a teacher at Kabul university.

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