Sentence #45 - REVEALED
How did you do?
Before we decide, let’s look at the pros and cons.
These are the things that might have tripped you up:
The reduced first syllable of before, which sounds like buh FOR instead of bee for
The reduction + connection in look at, which sounds like luket
The consonant-vowel connection in pros and, which makes it sound like prosen
The dropped d in and cons, which is common when the d is between two consonant sounds
The phrase pros and cons itself (a phrase that is unfamiliar to some of my own students), which means the good and bad points of something
How did you do with our first binomial phrase of the month?
Do you use the phrase pros and cons? Or do you prefer advantages and disadvantages? Or maybe even benefits and drawbacks?
Well, listening to you make me feel good because I can understand (most of the time) 😆 😎