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Sentence Stress Part 2

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on July 6, 2012October 15, 2012
  • Grammar

Sentence Stress is the combination of strong and weak words in a sentence which create a sort of rhythm. This rhythm is explained in Sentence Stress Part 1. But, which words are strong and which […]

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Sentence Stress Part 1

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on May 23, 2012
  • Reductions

What is sentence stress? In English, some words are spoken more strongly and are easier to hear, and some words are spoken quickly, or weakly, and can be hard to hear clearly. This combination of […]

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Phrasal Verbs — The Good News (The Pronunciation)

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on February 23, 2012
  • Frequent words

The pronunciation pattern of phrasal verbs is less complicated than the grammar. Phrasal verbs have a stable, predictable stress pattern, which is: the 2nd word gets the stress. That means that the 2nd part is […]

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Phrasal Verbs — The Bad News (The Grammar)

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on February 22, 2012
  • Frequent words

The topic of phrasal verbs includes a little grammar and a little pronunciation. Since the grammar part is more complicated than the pronunciation part, this introduction to phrasal verbs covers the “bad news”. First, what […]

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A tongue-twister: Fuzzy Wuzzy

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on December 8, 2010October 6, 2011
  • Reductions

Here is a good tongue-twister to try: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he? There are 2 keys to pronoucing this well: 1. “Wuzzy” and “was […]

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