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There's a mistake I've noticed
some students making sometimes
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with the word ‘gonna’. Now I love it when my
students use reductions in spoken English:
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Is she gonna be here soon? It's very
smooth and natural. But if they respond,
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‘She gonna be here soon,’ then something's wrong,
and it's the word ‘is’. So in the question,
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it's at the beginning: Is she gonna be here soon?
But you can't leave it out of the statement:
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She gonna be here soon. We still need ‘is’: She's,
she's, she's. Now apostrophe S it's just a quick
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Z sound at the end: She's gonna, she's gonna,
she's gonna be here soon. As the statement,
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but we still need that little Z sound for the
sentence to be grammatically correct. We cannot
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leave it out. She's gonna be here soon. Is she
gonna be here soon? She's gonna be here soon.
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