I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Only in spoken English. But in written English, some contractions are not usually written that

hi evelien i'd like to correct some grammer problems in your speech "our teacher at school"-->i think "our school's teacher" or "our teacher" easier and better "the purpose of this is

hi voctoria(or "hello victoria" your form of speech) there were some mistakes in your sentences let's to correct them,ok? "improve my english language"--> improve my english(or english conversation) because you do not

I don't hear it used often by white people (unless used deliberately, for example in songs), but African Americans seem to use it more regularly in everyday informal speech, so it depends on the variety of English you want to consider.

Sue aside. The exact quality of some unstressed vowels is not very important in English, because it varies from accent to accent and from situation to situation. In all such cases, like stay-shun vs stay-shin or Duh-sember vs Dih-sember, just say

Hi. I'm a native American English speaker. Most of your sentences sound very natural. 1. The most important thing in life is not love. Sounds okay. The sentence does sound like you mean to say more, like you mean that love isn't the

I am an English elementary school teacher, I need to have my fourth graders write a 2 or three minutes speech pretending they are Irish kids. Could anyone please let me know what is an Irish kid lifystyle? What games they play, what traditions are

short 'the' (before a consonant sound) French le Oddly e nough, a large p e r centage of unstressed English vow e ls "reduce to schwa" in rap i d speech, including those underlined here. It varies, depending on the

Does anyone know any restatements in this speech? I'm in AP English and we have to find a whole bunch of stuff like that in here. Any help would be greatly appriecated! :)

These are OK: You want to let me help you?-- Very casual. Do you want to let me help you? Do not use ' wanna' (or gonna, coulda, woulda . etc) in ANY written English unless you are actually transcribing speech (i.e. writing dialogue). It is not