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.