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sasuna
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help please
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hello ,
Could you please help me with this lesson: It is about the weak and strong forms of would you...? and do you...?
This is the rule in our coursebook here in Algeria: We generally use the weak form of would yo...? and do you...? in questions when we speak very quicKly.
This rule doesn �t satisfy me and also I can �t teach things which I don �t understand.
Please if YOU HAVE AN EXPLANATION LET ME KNOW IT AND THANKS IN ADVANCE
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24 Oct 2011
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nourelhouda1
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hi ,
Could you please make it clearer ; what do you mean by �weak � and �strong � forms ; do you mean the �short � and � long forms � wouldn �t or don �t and doesn �t ?
Cheers
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24 Oct 2011
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sasuna
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It is a phonetics lesson not a grammar one.
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24 Oct 2011
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chalii
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hi sasuna,
infect in weak form the last sounds assimilate in some conditions so they give different sound instead of their actual sounds.
in would you /d/ and /j/ makes /dʒ/ sound
/d/ +/j/ =/dʒ/ so that is becomes weak form of would you. the same rule apply on " did you".
hope uyou will get the reason. love |
24 Oct 2011
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ueslteacher
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_form_and_strong_form
Weak means pronounced like an unstressed syllable which can only happen in spoken language. E. g. Would you like me to bring you a chair? If you draw an intonation pattern for this question, you �ll see that the first two words are not stressed, so they are therefore pronounced like unstressed syllables of one word - wudjulaikmi... Whereas strong form is stressed. Sophia
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24 Oct 2011
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sasuna
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thank you dear colleagues for your help
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25 Oct 2011
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