Dear friend, for singular names ending in -s, the regular genitive is usual: Davis's , Charles's . Sometimes these nouns are treated as if they were plural: Davis' , Charles' - in this case the ending -s is still pronounced even

These articles are all good. This will help with the Past Simple - Click Here This will help with the Past Continuous - Click Here This is great for a summary of the two - Click Here And this helps with the pronunciation of regular past simple

That doesn't mean you have to post 18 times. You shuda combined them into a single post. Since we're preaching up proper English here, please, don't post "kind-of-chat" language here. I don't belong to the set

How would you find dreary if rhymed with prairie ? I might think it was an attempt to say "dairy". CJ

Hi guys, Conversely, I'd find it odd if 'prairie' were pronounced to rhyme with 'dreary'. Clivef

I've never heard it rhyme with prairie . Sounds odd, indeed.

Hi On this side of the pond, people find it very difficult to pronounce " dreary " correctly. Most of us make it rhyme with "prairie ." (which I understand is wrong). Could I request a native speaker's take on this? How

The "l" of "bell" when it ends a word is kind of a "half l" when compared to the initial "l" in "love" which allows the "l" voicing to be completed by going to a vowel. Yet the

For the third person singular, use s . It's pronunciation will depend on what comes before it: voiced consonant or vowel /z/; unvoiced consonant /s/. animals, cows; pets For a word ending in /s/ or /z/ sound , use es

There are two issues: (1) heuristics used in phonics (2) phonetics g: /g/, /dʒ/ c: /k/, /s/ /k/ is voiceless, whereas its counterpart /g/ is voiced. /s/ is voicelss; /dʒ/ is voiced. Velar consonants get softened (or voiced) before front vowels