I have used a textbook for about 10 years: Whaddaya say? by Nina Weinstein. It helps students recognize typical speech patterns and common reductions that Americans use, such as the title phrase "What do you say - whaddaya say" or

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

Hello, this is my first post here but I've been visiting the site for at least several months since I have found some very interesting discussions here. My question is going to be really complicated and it will take you some time to read

Hi, 'Reference' here means 'a lot of mentions'. There were a lot of references to Tom means 'Tom was mentioned a lot'. You refer to something. 'The platform' is an idiomatic way of speaking about

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

Great rant here: http://snipurl.com/sbhp8 Well. *That* was something. I had a friend once who heard a Vidal speech, and afterwards he said Vidal spoke so badly of the American government that the speech sounded like an MDC song slowed down with no

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.

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

You can choose the one you hear the most or the one you like the most. In my opinion, it's not worth bothering with such a distinction, because it would be a useless effort, unless you really wanted to have a perfect accent where such a

i have five sentences and need to know all the adverbs and adjectives will u please tell me all of them: 1. The Bill of Rights is the ten amendments that immediately follow the Constitution. 2. The First Amendment is the most familiar