Name: Day 12 - Reducing IS, OF - Understanding Fast Speech in English
Uploaded: 2018-09-23T07:38:14.000Z
Duration: 3 min 35 s
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The comparative

You know what's one of the harder things to hear?

It's a word that's part of a contraction.

We'll talk about IS and OF in this lesson.

IS, as you know, often contracts to a single letter: 'S.

But you need to hear it in order to understand what someone's saying.

As you heard, these contractions with IS are not always written.

"Nick's dad" ...that's a possessive form. His dad.

But in fast speech I'll use apostrophe + S

We can reduce the vowel sound to a schwa,

So instead of "one of the harder things,"

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Day 12 - Reducing IS, OF - Understanding Fast Speech in English

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