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[Dino and Coop singing]

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Today's video is all about...

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Ed?

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Hmm. [Guy called Bob looking confused]

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Like....

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Ed...gar Allen Poe? [Picture of Edgar Allen Poe]

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How about....

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Ed.... ward the II?

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Oh look, we're gonna need a bit more than “Ed” to go off of here...

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Today we'll be talking about “e-d,”

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As well as “i-n-g.”

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Too bad.

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Edward the II had a pretty cool beard. [Painting of Edward the II]

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We could've done an entire video about it.

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Okay!

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So by adding “e-d” or “i-n-g” to words, we can indicate the tense of a word. [Coop pointing at a blackboard]

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If someone “jumped” for instance, that would suggest we're in the past tense – they [Guy sleeping on a couch]

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previously jumped.

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If they are “jumping” however, then we can assume we're in the present tense and [Kids jumping in a park]

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they're jumping at this very moment.

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Now when it comes to reading and saying these words out loud, the “ing” ones are pretty [Coop eating sweetcorn]

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darn easy.

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All you really do is take whatever word you're saying...

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Whether it's “want” or “cook” or “place” and then add the sound “i-n-g” after it.

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Wanting, cooking, placing.

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But when it comes to adding “e-d” to those words, well, pronouncing it can be a bit trickier. [Magician appears with birds coming from his hands]

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Sometimes the “e-d” sounds like “id,” while other times it might sound like “tuh”

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or “duh.”

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And if we're unfamiliar with a word, it might be difficult to know how to pronounce it's [Guy sat at a computer]

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“ed” form.

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But don't worry – there's a trick. [Magician makes a rabbit appear from his hat]

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Think of the name “Ted.”

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Specifically, the letters T and D.

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Now if the syllable before the “ed” in your word ends with a T or a D, then you're [Dino pointing at a blackboard]

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going to likely pronounce it “id.”

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For example, in the words we used earlier, “want” ends with a T, so we know that

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“wanted” is pronounced with an “-id” sound.

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Want-id.

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But since our other words, cook and place, don't end with a D or a T, we don't pronounce

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them with that “id” sound.

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Cooked and placed.

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Those are pronounced with the “tuh” and “duh” sounds.

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They sort of just roll off the tongue quickly as opposed to forming their own “id” sound [Words falling from a boy's tongue]

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like in “want-id” And that's it!

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…Hm.

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Maybe we have time to talk about Edward's sweet beard after all… [Girls screaming about Edward II]

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Just look at that thing…majestic.

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