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DO和DOES的缩略词 In this American English pronunciation video, were going to study using DO and DOES as helping verbs, and their pronunciation. Do you know what a helping verb is? Its a verb that helps the main verb of the sentence – so its not the main verb. Its an auxiliary verb. Lets look at two examples: I do it all the time. What do you think? In one sentence, do is the main verb; its the only verb. In the other sentence, its the helping verb, the auxiliary verb. Which is which? Think is a verb, its the main verb of that sentence. So do is the helping verb in the second sentence, and the main verb in the first sentence. What do you notice about the pronunciation? In the first sentence, I pronounce it fully, do, with the OO as in BOO vowel. In the second sentence, its not as clear. What do you think? I reduce the vowel to the schwa, duh, duh. I say it as fast as I can. You might notice Im dropping the T in what and reducing the vowel in you to the schwa as well: what do you, what do you. What do you think? That makes the words in that phrase flow together, just like we want in American English. Content words are words we want to stress, words we want to fully pronounce. Verbs are content words, but helping verbs are not. These are function words, which are unstressed and sometimes reduced. Duh, duh. This same idea works with the word does. Fully pronounced, does, with the UH as in BUTTER vowel. But when its a helping verb, its pronounced diz, does, does. Different, right? Its less clear, very, very quick, and we reduce the vowel to the schwa. The jaw doesnt really need to drop – does. She does accounting for the firm. What does he need? She does accounting, does, does. Its the only verb, fully pronounced. She does, she does. What does he need? does, does, does. Unstressed, very fast. Need is the main verb here. Does, does. What does he, what does he. Notice Im also dropping the H in he, as we often do. What does he need? Lets listen to a few more sentences with does