Strong and weak forms!!

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Hi everybody,I'm new in this forum and it's my first question here, so i hope that you'll answer me.My question is about strong and weak forms of pronounciation, please could youhelp me on that by giving me the rules of the use?? I'm waiting for you, and thanks...P.S: I mean by rules; when should we use the strong form and when should we use the weak form of some auxiliaries,conjunctions...etc

Khoff · Accepted Answer

Hi, lylyanna.  Welcome to English Forums!  Could you give some examples of what words you are asking about?  I can tell you how I pronounce various things, but I'm not sure what you mean by "strong and weak forms."  (Maybe someone with more experience with rules of pronunciation will be able to help you.)

Lylyanna · Answer

Thank you very much for the reply;
I'll give you some examples that i know:
"When some prepositions occur at the beginnig or in the middle of a sentence they are in their weak forms as: I came frome /f?m/ London.
and when they occur at the end of a sentence they are in their strong form as: What are you looking at /at/?"

and there are other rules concerning have-has-was-were-the-am-an-do-should-can-could......etc these are the rules that i want to know.

I look forward to your reply.
Thanks

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