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    This document discusses strong and weak forms in English pronunciation. Strong forms refer to stressed words like nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, while weak forms refer to unstressed function words like articles, prepositions, and auxiliaries. Weak forms are pronounced with the schwa sound and make the words less prominent. Using weak forms is important for maintaining the rhythm of English and sounding natural. Students learning English often only use strong forms, so they can have trouble understanding native speakers who use weak forms in everyday speech. Identifying and practicing weak forms is important for improving pronunciation and comprehension.

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    This document discusses strong and weak forms in English pronunciation. Strong forms refer to stressed words like nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, while weak forms refer to unstressed function words like articles, prepositions, and auxiliaries. Weak forms are pronounced with the schwa sound and make the words less prominent. Using weak forms is important for maintaining the rhythm of English and sounding natural. Students learning English often only use strong forms, so they can have trouble understanding native speakers who use weak forms in everyday speech. Identifying and practicing weak forms is important for improving pronunciation and comprehension.

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    This document discusses strong and weak forms in English pronunciation. Strong forms refer to stressed words like nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, while weak forms refer to unstressed function words like articles, prepositions, and auxiliaries. Weak forms are pronounced with the schwa sound and make the words less prominent. Using weak forms is important for maintaining the rhythm of English and sounding natural. Students learning English often only use strong forms, so they can have trouble understanding native speakers who use weak forms in everyday speech. Identifying and practicing weak forms is important for improving pronunciation and comprehension.

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    STRONG AND WEAK FORMS

    Unit 10. Strong forms & weak forms.

    • Strong forms: stressed forms (Stressed words in a sentence)


    • Weak forms: unstressed forms (Unstressed words in a sentence)
    Strong Forms and Weak Forms

    • Kategori kata yang tergolong ke • Kategori kata yang tergolong ke


    dalam Strong Forms/Words dalam Weak Forms/Words
    (Content Words atau lexical words) (Function Words atau grammatical
    adalah: words) adalah:

    1. Articles: a, an, the


    1. Nouns: car, happiness
    2. Conjunctions: and, but, or
    2. Verbs: run, visualize
    3. Prepositions: in, off, over
    3. Adjectives: happy, careful 4. Pronouns: your, us, their
    4. Adverbs: now, calmly 5. Auxiliaries: can, might, is, was

    Lazimnya, kategori kata-kata di Lazimnya, kategori kata-kata di atas


    atas mendapatkan stress dalam tidak mendapatkan stress dalam
    normal speech. normal speech.
    Grammatical words are words The strong form only happens
    that help us construct the when we pronounce the words
    sentence but they don't mean alone, or when we emphasize
    anything: articles, prepositions, them.
    conjunctions, auxiliary verbs,
    etc. Weak forms are very often
    These words have no stress, pronounced with a schwa (/ә/),
    and so they are weakened. That and so are very weak and
    weakened form is called "weak sometimes a bit difficult to hear
    form" as opposed to a "strong properly.
    form", which is the full form of Sometimes weak forms are
    the word pronounced with easy to spot, because we use
    stress. contractions in the spelling to
    show it:
    I am French (strong form) I'm French (weak form)
    But usually there is no change of spelling, only the pronunciation is different:
    But strong form: /bʌt/ weak form: /bət/

    Tell him to go strong forms /hɪm/ /tu:/ weak form: /tel əm tə gəʊ/
    As you can see, the grammatical words "him" and "to" are unstressed and have a weak form
    when pronounced inside a sentence.

    another example: I would like some fish and chips


    strong forms /aɪ wʊd laɪk sʌm fɪʃ ænd tʃɪps/ This version sounds unnatural and, believe it or
    not, more difficult to understand for a native speaker.

    weak forms /ɑ wəd laɪk səm fɪʃ ən tʃɪps/ and we can use weaker forms sometimes: /ɑd laɪk
    səm fɪʃ ən tʃɪps/ so we can see that the auxiliary verb "would" has two weak forms /wəd/
    and /d/
    Students who are learning English usually use only strong forms, and
    they sound very unnatural.

    English speakers use weak forms all the time, every single sentence is
    full of them, and students find it difficult to understand because they are
    not used to them, and very often they don't even know they exist.

    Why do grammatical words weaken the way they do. It's all about
    rhythm. The way English is pronounced makes it necessary to weaken
    function words so you can keep the rhythm.

    You can find more about rhythm here or simply watch this introduction
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2JZICF2uH8
    • Contoh: My baby walks to the door and stands there

    Strong forms (stressed words) kalimat di atas adalah:


    baby (noun), walk (verb), door (noun), stands (verb), there (adverb).

    Weak Forms (unstressed words) kalimat di atas adalah:


    My (pronoun), to (preposition), the (article), and (conjunction)
    •THANK YOU
    Exercise: Strong and Weak Forms

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