030 ed adjectives

Prof. Francisco Zabala - 2014

<-ed> Endings: Past Tense Inflections or Adjectives?
Regular verbs in the simple past or past participle
Rule: voice agreement
1. Final voiced sound + .c.
2. Final voiceless sound + .s.
3. Exception: final .s.
or .c.
+ .Hc., i.e. they add an extra syllable!

Can you transcribe these endings in the following text?
1
It all started
ed on New Year’s Eve. I arrived
ed from work and decided
ed that enough was enough! I picked
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phone up, dialled

ed my boyfriend’s number and talked
ed to him. I had already ended
ed several relationships, but
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never on the phone! Anyway, he deserved
ed it! John had showed
ed he cared
ed about nobody, so why should I get
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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.

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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
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And... I just enjoyed
ed it!
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What happens to the word “wicked”? What’s special about it?

Adjectives and Adverbs
There’s a small group of adjectival words whose <-ed> 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 <-edly> is pronounced .Hckh+
?ckh., namely:
Advisedly
Allegedly
Assuredly
Confessedly

Deservedly
Designedly
Fixedly
Markedly
supposedly