Espresso English Podcast Shayna Oliveira

Contractions combine two words into a short form with an apostrophe – for example, I am becomes I’m; could not becomes couldn’t... and many more that you’ll learn in this lesson.
Contractions are extremely common in spoken English and informal written English, and today you’re going to learn 50 of them – yes, we do have that many contractions in English!
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Linking verbs do not describe an action – instead, they connect the subject of the sentence to a word describing it or providing additional information about it. For example:
- I feel tired. (“tired” describes me) - He seems annoyed (“annoyed” describes him) - She is a teacher. (“a teacher” describes her) - They are students. (“students” describes them)  I’ll show you a list of linking verbs, and then we’ll look at a lot of examples. If you want to download this lesson to save it and review it later, click here and enter your e-mail address to get the free PDF. 

Our question of the day is “What do gotcha, gotta, and got it mean – and how do we use them in informal spoken English?” All of these involve the word “got,” but they are different!
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Do you know how to apologize in English, beyond just the single word “Sorry”? Let’s learn some phrases for making apologies and then phrases for responding to an apology.
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