Name: 10 Common Words To Sound Natural! English Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2018-08-02T12:14:58.000Z
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and in this lesson I'm going to share ten words

to sound more natural when you speak English.

Interestingly, these words have a few things in common.

So firstly, they are very, very, very, common.

this lesson is worth paying attention to.

But before we go on, I want to make sure that you've

and you've turned on the notifications so that you know

whenever there's a new lesson ready for you.

But keep watching to learn how to say these words

for grammatical reasons in English sentences.

On their own, they don't hold a lot of meaning.

which are the words that help us to understand

what is happening in a sentence or how it's happening

So these words are structure words not content words.

The exception though is the 'be' verb here.

It's the only verb that we've got but it's the exception.

The other thing that these words have in common

is that they all have stressed and unstressed forms

what we're going to go over in this lesson.

Because using the unstressed forms of these words

when you speak English will help you to sound

so you don't hear it pronounced like 'the' very often.

So if the word 'the' is followed by a consonant sound,

then it's pronounced 'the' - the lazy schwa sound.

Now if the word 'the' is followed by a vowel sound

but of course, it has several forms doesn't it?

When it's the main verb in the infinitive form,

you'll usually hear just a slightly shorter version.

Now in the present tenses you'll hear 'am', 'is' and 'are'

and these forms are usually pushed together

that we hardly hear the 'be' verb at all.

The pronunciation of the past tense forms

Now 'to' is the stressed form but when spoken,

Just like I said, moving on to the word 'to'.

Now 'of' is another incredibly common English word,

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