PRONOUNCING THE VERB BE She was FIRST
You don’t normally put stress on to be in the middle on the sentence.
The verb to be is not usually spoken as a separate syllable, but it is a separate syllable if there is a word ending with SS, CE, GE or CH before it
dependent
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Snow is white. Your hair is dirty. The road is closed. The clock is broken.
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separate
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Grass is green. Your face is dirty. The bridge is closed. My watch is broken.
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Compare the sentences. Divide them into 2 columns.
The house is cold. The room is cold. 2. The taxi is here. The bus is here. 3. The beach is crowded. The park is crowded. 4. The steak is good. The fish is good. 5. The meaning is clear. The message is clear. 6. The smell is awful! The noise is awful! 7. Juice is good for you. Fruit is good for you.
The verb to be is normally stressed in negative and interrogative sentences.
AUXILIARY VERBS WHAT do you THINK?
OooO is a very common rhythm in questions beginning with Wh- words (when, where, what) followed by auxiliaries.
Wh- word
What
O
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auxiliary
do
o
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pronoun
you
o
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main verb
think?
O
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What do you think? Where do you live? What does she mean? Where does he work? What did he say? Why did you go?
In very fast speech, some speakers pronounce many of these questions with only three syllables.
Достарыңызбен бөлісу: | 
