A father earns the gratitude of his children by nurturing them to be preeminent in the Assembly of the Learned.
Thirukural, verse 67, circa 100 A.D. in: KUMARAVADIVELU, B. 2003.
Regular verbs ending in voiced sounds are pronounced with the sound /d/ in the simple past and past perfect, and so are most adjectives with the same form. However, the word “Learned”, present in the quotation above, has a distinctive pronunciation feature when functioning as an adjective or a noun: /ˈlɜːnɪd/. Among the words below, choose the one that follows the same characteristic of pronunciation when used in such functions.
- A amused.
- B boiled.
- C beloved.
- D canned.
- E dazed.