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As you advance in your English, you will begin to feel more and more ready to describe actions in the past. In English, regular past tense forms end in "-ed." There are THREE ways to pronounce this suffix in English, however: -d, -t, and -id.
In this episode, we provide many humorous and easy-to-understand examples of this variety of sounds. The verbs featured in this episode include:
called
seemed
cleaned
looked
asked
finished
and
wanted
Este episodio presenta algunos de los verbos más comunes en inglés, enfocando en el sufijo "-ed" y cuando se lo pronucia o "-d," "-t," o "-ed." Gabo y Goyo usan anécdotas y humor para proveer contexto y repetición.
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