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Peaceblinkfriend Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Is - how to say it ?

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00I am an English learner so I sometimes have difficulties in pronouncing English correctly .02br
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00When I looked the word " is " up in the dictionary , it says you've got two different pronunciations . 02br
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01b00STRONG / IZ / WEAK /Z/ /S/02br
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02b00I would like to know when to use the strong one and the weak one .02br
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0 When it's written "is" it's pronounced as /Iz/. The weak form, is simply that it is sometimes contracted to /s/ or /z/. When it is contracted, it is indicated with an appostrophe:02br 00for example02br 02br 00It is good /It Iz gUd/02br 00It's good /Its gUd/02br 02br 00When it is contracted, it's pronounced as /s/, when proceeded by letters such as /p, t, k, f, T/, however after a vowel, or after /b, d, g, v, D, m, n/, it's prononuced simply as /z/.

— Marvin A.

  • 0 When it's written "is" it's pronounced as /Iz/.
  • The weak form, is simply that it is sometimes contracted to /s/ or /z/.
  • When it is contracted, it is indicated with an appostrophe:02br 00for example02br 02br 00It is good /It Iz gUd/02br 00It's good /Its gUd/02br 02br 00When it is contracted, it's pronounced as /s/, when proceeded by letters such as /p, t, k, f, T/, however after a vowel, or after /b, d, g, v, D, m, n/, it's prononuced simply as /z/.
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0 When it's written "is" it's pronounced as /Iz/. The weak form, is simply that it is sometimes contracted to /s/ or /z/. When it is contracted, it is indicated with an appostrophe:02br
00for example02br
02br
00It is good /It Iz gUd/02br
00It's good /Its gUd/02br
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00When it is contracted, it's pronounced as /s/, when proceeded
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