When we say a sentence in English, we join or “link” words to each other. Because of this linking, the words in a sentence do not always sound the same as when we say them individually. Linking is very important in English. If you recognize and use linking, two things will happen:
You will understand other people more easily
Other people will understand you more easily
There are basically three main types of linking:
consonant ⇔ vowel
We link words ending with a consonant sound to words beginning with a vowel sound.
We write: Can I have a bit of egg?
We say: ca-ni-ha-va-bi-to–vegg?
vowel ⇔ vowel
We link words ending with a vowel sound to words beginning with a vowel sound.
We write: You all go out too often.
We say: youwall gowout toowoften.
same sound:
We link words ending and beginning with the same sounds to each other.
This city (thisity) Real life (realife)
Tough fight (toufight) More room (moroom)
Big garden (bigarden) Some money (somoney)
Black coffee (blackoffee) Orange juice (oranjuice)