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#298 School English vs Street English: How to Speak Natural, Fluent English
RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English
What's the Difference Between a Contractions and a Contraction?
There's certain things with a grammar that like, you need to be more flexible with when you'respeaking shreet english. Contractions is something that native speakers use all the time and even some advanced learners still haven't mastered them. A lot of learners will read a contraction as if it weren't contracted. So say, like, they'll see written, i apostope l l, which is, il is the contraction. But they'l see that, and they'll say, i will. They are still saying it non contracted. That can be a good thing to practise. An advanced tip that we have is we even have double contractions, which you'll hear in spoken English
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