Sentence #27 - REVEALED
How did you do?
I hate horror movies! I saw I know what you did last summer when I was younger, and I think it scarred me for life.
These are the things that might have tripped you up:
The connection between what you, which changes it into wha-chu
The dropped t and connection in last summer, which sounds like las-summer
The recognition of the name of the movie, I know what you did last summer, because, as we talked about before, names can be hard to hear
The reductions and connections between the function words when I was, which is pronounced quickly and softly: wheneiwuz
The reduction of the function word and, which sounds like an
The phrase scared me for life, which is slangy and may be unfamiliar to many English learners
Which one caused the most problems for your ability to understand what you hear? Let me know in the comments👇 and I’ll do more like this sentence.