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Final Consonants

Technique: Pronounce final consonants, especially D  and  T

Most common mistakes:

 
1
  can & can't
 
2
  coal & cold
 
3
  fell & felt
 
4
  Finnish & finished
 
5
  loss & lost
 
6
  men & meant
 
7
  mine & mind
 
8
  pass & past
 
9
  tie & tight
 
10
  when & went

Other mistakes:

 

an & and / ant, away & awake, bassmen & basement, beer & beard, bell & belt, Ben & bend / bent, Bess & best, bill & build / built, boar / bore & board, boy & boil, bran & brand, car & card / cart, collie & colleague, core & chord / court, depart men & department, dozen & doesn't, fall & fault, feel & field, fine & find, fun & fund, goal & gold, guess & guest, high & hide / height, hole & hold, invest men & investment, join & joint, lass & last, lease & least, mile & mild, mill & milk, necks & next, pain & paint, par & part, pay men & payment, pour / pore & pork / port, sea & seat, sick & six, shell & shelf, shore & short, sing & sink, sly & slide or slight, sore & sword / sort, stander & standard, tang & tank, ten & tent, Tess & test, thaw & thought, thing & think, throw & throat, truss & trust, way / weigh & weight, weaken & weekend, we're & weird, why & while, win & wind

 

Practice these (concentrating on the bold-type consonant):

 

Black coal is cold.
My tie is too tight.
I can't but she can.
We bill after we build.
Guess who is our guest?
I felt fine until I fell down.
Can I pour you some port?
A dozen doesn't cost much.
Bess makes the best biscuits.
The Finnish team has finished.
What do you think of that thing?
The pass went past the defenceman.
My colleague has a collie named Lassie.
When we went to work, it was still dark.
They won the gold medal with that goal.
There is a bore on the Board of Directors.
It's no loss to have lost something worthless.
This is the story of an ant and a grasshopper.

 

 

 
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