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How native speakers pronounce “unstressables”

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Since syllable number two is stressed in  the verb we also know a general rule is   other vowels in the unstressables  may become a schwa. And we have   that situation here so for the verb. We're  going to say pra with the schwa sound pra.

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Example sentences

Since syllable number two is stressed in  the verb we also know a general rule is   other vowels in the unstressables  may become a schwa. And we have   that situation here so for the verb. We're  going to say pra with the schwa sound pra.

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