pronounced in three different ways?

They can be /d/, /t/ or /id/. Here's how to find out which.

First, feel your neck. If a sound makes it vibrate like /d/,

then it's voiced. If it doesn't like /t/, then it isn't.

Where 'ed' comes after a vowel or a voiced

consonant then pronounce it as /d/ -

which is a voiced sound.

Played, used.

If you have 'ed' after an unvoiced

sound then it sounds like /t/.

An unvoiced sound. Looked, helped.

If you have t or d then 'ed' becomes /id/ -

it's just easier to say. Wanted, needed.

So if 'ed' comes after a voiced sound,

then it's voiced. If it comes after an unvoiced

sound, then it's unvoiced and if it

comes after /t/ or /d/, then it's /id/.