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Consider the pronunciation of the following irregular verbs...

Read the text below to answer questions 39 to 42.

“To read these books, in this way, as an exercise in self-knowledge, carries certain risks. Risks that are both personal and political. Risks that every student of Political Philosophy has known. These risks spring from the fact that philosophy teaches us, and unsettles us, by confronting us with what we already know. There is an irony: the difficulty of this course consists in the fact that it teaches what you already know. It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings, and making it strange. [...] Philosophy estranges us from the familiar, not by supplying new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing.

But, and here is the risk, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be ’unthought’ or ’unknown’. What makes this enterprise difficult, but also riveting, is that Moral and Political Philosophy is a story, and you don’t know where the story would lead, but you do know that the story is about You.”

Text taken from: “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?” Introduction Class ― Michael Sandel

Consider the pronunciation of the following irregular verbs and their forms:

Lead – Led, led

Feed – Fed, fed

Bleed – Bled, bled

Breed – Bred, bred

Read – Read, read

Which statement is correct?


A

The past and past participle forms of all the verbs are pronounced the same as their base forms.


B

The base form "Lead" is pronounced the same as its past and past participle forms.


C

The verb "Read" has the same spelling in all forms, but its pronunciation differs between the base form and the past/past participle forms.


D

Only two verbs follow the same vowel sound pattern in their base, past, and past participle forms.


E

The verb "Bleed" is pronounced differently in its past participle compared to its past form, the same happens with the verbs "Lead” and “Breed”.