Prof Francisco Zabala - 2014 Endings: Past Tense Inflections or Adjectives? Regular verbs in the simple past or past participle Rule: voice agreement Final voiced sound + c Final voiceless sound + s Exception: final s or c + Hc., i.e they add an extra syllable! Can you transcribe these endings in the following text? It all started ed on New Year’s Eve I arrived ed from work and decided ed that enough was enough! I picked ed the phone up, dialled ed my boyfriend’s number and talked ed to him I had already ended ed several relationships, but never on the phone! Anyway, he deserved ed it! John had showed ed he cared ed about nobody, so why should I get worried ed about him? We weren’t married ed, ed! ed, ed, ed we weren’t even engaged ed He was self-centred ed big-headed ed thick skinned ed ed myself for not having realised ed earlier I knew I was being wicked ed! ed He was a total prick and I loathed ed And I just enjoyed ed it! What happens to the word “wicked”? What’s special about it? Adjectives and Adverbs There’s a small group of adjectival words whose ending is pronounces Hc., namely: aged (NOT middle-aged) beloved blessed crabbed crooked cursed dogged jagged learned -legged (e.g four-legged) naked ragged rugged sacred wicked wretched E.g.: Adjective + noun An aged professor ?m !dHcYHc oq?!edr? My beloved husband l`H aH!kUuHc !gUya?mc The adverbial ending is pronounced Hckh+ ?ckh., namely: Advisedly Allegedly Assuredly Confessedly Deservedly Designedly Fixedly Markedly supposedly