Name: Natural English Pronunciation | Contractions
Uploaded: 2018-08-02T11:53:51.000Z
Duration: 12 min 15 s
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Okay so we've been talking about modal verbs a lot

That means you have to be ready to join in!

if you want to improve your pronunciation

Let's get our modal verbs up on the screen.

We've got could, should, would, may, might, can, will,

and amongst all of my native English speaking

and perhaps even a little old-fashion now.

So I'm actually just going to remove it from this lesson.

But I want to focus this pronunciation lesson

and 'shall' is very rarely contracted anyway.

is that the L in all of these three words is silent.

and 'could' and 'should' are also the same.

So let's look at all of the possible contractions

So in spoken English 'have' is often contracted

Now if you're listening to native English speakers

You could've. You could have brought the dog.

And the contracted pronunciation of 'have' is the same

or even maya - if you're listening to a native speaker.

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