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In English, past tense verbs with an -ed ending are...
Instruction: Answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text.
‘Nomophobia’ is the UK People’s Word of 2018
- The UK’s Cambridge Dictionary has declared nomophobia, the word that describes the
- stress and anxiety caused by being separated from your mobile device, as the People’s Word of
- 2018.
- For the first time, the Cambridge editors asked the public to vote for the word that best
- summed up 2018. They shortlisted four words that have surged in use this year, and from New
- York to London to Tokyo, Cambridge Dictionary users have been voting for their favorite. It
- was nomophobia – defined as “fear or worry at the idea of being without your mobile phone
- or unable to use it” – that topped the polls.
- Wendalyn Nichols, who is the Cambridge Dictionary publishing manager, commented:
- “We are one of the most popular online dictionaries in the world, and we have a very smart
- and enthusiastic global community using our free resources. We add thousands of new words
- and definitions every year, and we were eager to give our users the opportunity to express
- their views on the words that best reflected this year’s trends and events.
- “Their votes tell us that separation anxiety isn’t just about what young children feel
- when separated from their parents any longer. It’s now also about the intimate – and often
- dysfunctional – relationships with our smartphones. And nomophobia gives a name to this
- anxiety.”
- Perhaps described more accurately as an anxiety disorder than a phobia, nomophobia (a
- blend of syllables from “no mobile phone phobia”) appears to have been coined in 2008 – not
- by psychologists, but by Britain’s YouGov researchers, in a report commissioned by the UK Post
- Office. It subsequently began to appear in UK media and has since spread around the world.
- Having proved its staying power, it was added to the online Cambridge Dictionary earlier this
- year.
- Other words on the shortlist for the People’s Word of 2018 were:
- gender gap noun
- a difference between the way men and women are treated in society, or between what
- men and women do and achieve
- ecocide noun
- destruction of the natural environment of an area, or very great damage to it
- no-platforming noun
- the practice of refusing someone an opportunity to make their ideas or beliefs known
- publicly, because you think these beliefs are dangerous or unacceptable
Adapted from: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2018/11/29/nomophobia-is-the-peoples-word-of-2018/
In English, past tense verbs with an -ed ending are pronounced in three different ways. In the verbs “shortlisted” (line 5) and “commented” (line 9), the –ed ending is pronounced:
A
[t]
B
[d]
C
[ɪt]
D
[ət] or [ɪt]
E
[əd] or [ɪd]