MOST COMMON English Word Combinations! - FAST Speaking Practice!

- Today is where your English level

goes from here, oop, to here.

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- These are the most common three to four word combos ever.

According to Google.

To make this work better for you,

I want you to make notes of each combo,

and make a practice sentence

that you can practice saying every day,

to speed up your speaking.

Make sure this sentence applies to your life.

First, a number of.

This is a great way to say many. A lot.

Practice your pronunciation with me, so you can improve.

A number of.

Schwa here, and here.

And the stress is on Nu.

A number of.

A number of.

Remember, it means many or a lot.

So a business example could be,

I've worked on a number of campaigns for various companies.

Or an everyday dating example could be,

I've been on a number of Tinder dates, and they all sucked.

Now you practice.

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Nice.

One of the, some of the, part of the.

Lots of connected speech practice today.

So pay attention, practice with me.

Examples you could use.

One of the.

Stress on Wa.

One of the.

One of the.

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You'll notice with words like of, we just remove the F,

and that sounds like a schwa sound.

Uh.

Aly?

Yeah, he's one of the best teachers on YouTube.

Some o the.

Make sure you have every syllable.

Some o the.

I don't always eat cookies

just some of the time.

Stress on su.

Some of the time.

Part of the.

Yeah, you could use glotal T here.

Part of the doesn't really matter.

Part of the reason I hate you is your face.

And part of the reason I hate you is your voice.

See how it makes your speaking speed way faster?

It's crazy, right?

As well as.

It means, in addition to.

And it connects two things together.

Saying they're part of the same thing in some way.

Pronunciation.

As well as.

Schwa sound, uh.

Here and here.

As well as. Also notice, the S sounds like a Z.

As well as.

As well as.

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I eat cookies, as well as going to the gym.

You could also use this to mean

this does something as good as this thing.

Yeah, sure. Sounds fun.

I'll see you tonight.

You know as well as I do, I'm not going anywhere tonight.

Be able to.

It means can.

And we say be able to when, for example,

we need an infinitive verb.

Like after a modal verb or an auxiliary verb.

Pronunciation, practice with me.

Be able to.

We insert a yuh sound between B and able.

Be able.

Be able to.

Stress on a. Be able to.

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Ugh, I wanna be able to have more free time.

Again, practice the pronunciation with me,

but make your own sentences as we go.

So you can practice every day

and make your speaking like (snaps) super speed.

In order to.

The stress is on norder to.

In order to.

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In order to work together, we need to be able to get along.

If you're practicing with me,

you should notice your speaking speed get faster

instantly here.

But with time and practice,

it gets even faster and even more natural

coming out of your mouth.

So don't worry.

You want to.

Usually this is a general you.

Not specifically you, you,

but a general group of people.

So like giving advice. You.

Pronunciation. We have options.

You want to. That's fine.

But more naturally, and more quickly, you wanna.

In order to be able to enjoy your holiday

to London this summer, you wanna bring all of your clothes.

The weather's ridiculous.

Next is one of the most.

This four word combo is like the pasta of English.

It matches really well with so many situations.

But my favorite way to use this,

is to exaggerate how good or how bad something is.

Pronunciation.

One of the most. See that rhythm?

One of the most.

Stress here and here. Say it with me.

One of the most.

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Speed up.

One of the most.

You're amazing.

This is one of the most amazing cookies ever.

You are one of the most annoying people I've ever met.

Next is out of the.

Pronunciation. Out of the.

That's fine.

But quicker, out of the.

And of course, glottal t is an option.

Out of the.

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How can we use this?

Well, of course, there's out of the way.

Outta the way.

Of the way.

And that means, it's not a problem anymore.

Ugh. I finished my work.

Now that's out of the way.

But way more fun is out of the blue.

Which means suddenly, or no one expected this to happen.

Especially at that moment.

You're breaking up with me?

This is so out of the blue.

Next is a lot of.

I thought this would be the most common,

but I guess not.

Pronunciation. Again, we have options.

A lot of.

A lot of.

Glottal T, a lotta.

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Sounds like Aloha, but it's not.

Now, a very common mistake for ESL students.

If you say a lot, that's fine.

But when you say a lot of,

you need that specific thing that you're talking about.

For example, what cookies? I have a lot of.

No. See the mistake?

You got cookies?

Yeah, a lot.

Good. You got cookies?

Yeah. A lot of cookies.

That's good.

And finally, the end of the.

Before I show you the pronunciation,

think about the connected speech that we've already done,

and the tips I already gave you.

See if you can nail this pronunciation.

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Got it?

The end of the.

Stress on end.

We link the and end with a yuh sound.

The end.

And of course of becomes a schwa.

The end of the.

The end of the.

Say it with me, the end of the.

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So this is the end of the list.

I hope you learned a lot.

And I hope that you're making notes,

writing your own example sentences that you can practice

with every day.

In order to learn more about pronunciation,

try this, you'll really like it.

But if you prefer to learn more about vocabulary,

try this video.

It's also really, really good.

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