Ўзбекистон республикаси олий ва ўрта махсус таълим вазирлиги ўзбекистон давлат жаҳон тиллари университети

Discuss the answers with your group.

Now listen, check your answers and repeat. (Pr. In Use Unit 29. Ex.29.1)

In rapid speech some sounds (vowels and consonants) can be omitted in order to ease the communication and this phenomenon is called elision. Elision can occur between word and word boundaries.

Rule 1. When these consonants are in the middle of a cluster of three consonants in a word, they are normally lost. In words that end in /t/, /d/ is frequently omitted.

Windmill hand exactly restless

Rule 2. When a word with final /t/ and /d/ is followed by another word beginning with consonant, the sounds /t/ and /d/ are omitted and it is normally lost.

Blind man east side old man

Last night exactly good next day