I’ve already begun my exercise program, and it’s going great.
Now it’s the past participle that has the same spelling and same pronunciation as the base form present tenseĮvery January, I begin a new exercise program. The caterpillar hasn’t become a butterfly yet. You’ll hear that later in this video as well, like with the word ‘bitten’. You don’t hear tttt the release, that’s because it’s part of the pattern T-schwa-N, so it’s a stop T. – same spelling, same pronunciation for simple past.īeat. The verb has a bunch of different meanings, like to carry the weight of or to take responsibility for. Bin is a word B-I-N, like a bin for storage or trash and remember how I said you can also pronounce this word as ‘Ben’? That’s also a word in American English, a name, usually short for ‘Benjamin’, like my friend Ben who has been in a couple of my videos here on my channel.īear – the noun is the animal. We do have the word ‘bean’ in American English and it’s spelled ea and it’s this.Ĭoffee bean, or black bean or pinto bean. “Been” is a pronunciation in British English, but not American English. You see this and you see this and you think, “be”, “been”. This is the only word in American English that I know of where ‘ee’ makes the IH vowel. The first one you probably know, but do you have the pronunciation down pat? The phrase ‘to have something down pat’ means to have something memorized perfectly. You’re going to need to know this, so stick with us. Today we’ll cover over more than 90 of the most common irregular verbs in English, and you’ll understand not just the spelling but the pronunciation too. And now it sounds just like the color red. And some of them get pretty funky, like this word: present tense, read, simple past: read, the spelling doesn’t change but the pronunciation does. And a lot of them are some of the most common words in English. But what about when it’s not? English is full of irregular verbs each with their own way of forming the past tense, and you just have to memorize them. It will help you sound more natural and smooth when you’re speaking English-and that’s my #1 goal!īeginned is not a word.
YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video.ĭo NOT say -ed with these irregular verbs! They’re tough to get right but I’ll help you master them.
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