 How to pronounce the ED ending correctly? Many students make pronunciation mistakes with the ED ending of verbs in the past tense. If you learn to pronounce ED correctly, your spoken English will sound more natural. There are three ways to pronounce the ED ending in English. Like ED with an extra syllable, like T and like D. Let's look at each case individually. ED is pronounced like ED with an extra syllable after verbs ending in a T or a D sound. For example, wanted, hated, started, attempted, decided, ended, guarded, exploded. ED is pronounced like T with no extra syllable after verbs ending in S, X, K, P, F, SH and CH sounds. This means that the past tense of work is pronounced worked and not worked. Here are more examples. Missed, fixed, liked, stopped, laughed, brushed, watched, developed. Finally, ED is pronounced like D with no extra syllable in all other verbs. So the past tense of the verb arrive which has two syllables is arrived, which also has two syllables. Don't say arrived. It's incorrect. Let's practice. Cleaned, played, used, called, allowed, argued, compared, annoyed, analyzed, opened. Thanks for watching English Tips from Espresso English. If you liked this video, please share it.