Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Weak Forms
of Function
Words
- Some words no usually
made prominent in
conversation
- Following groups of function words
- The personal pronouns The possessive
determiners Each other, one another The articles The
determiners The indefinite pronoun
Forms of the auxiliary verbs and the modal verbs except in negative forms
Prepositions The conjunctions
- Some of these function words have a:
- Strong form
- Used when the word is:
- Prominent
- Said on its own
- At the end of the sentence
- Weak Form
- The usual pronunciation
- Sometimes difficult to hear the weak forms in fast speech, particularly when a number of
them come together.
- Often saif quickly