Was/were going to: pronunciation
In spoken English, the phrase 'going to' can be pronounced word by word, especially when speaking slowly, or in formal situations.
However, in faster speech (also known as connected speech), or in less formal situations, 'going to' is often pronounced as 'gunna'gunna
In addition, the pronunciation of 'was' becomes 'wuz'wuz(rhymes with 'buzz') and 'were' becomes 'wuh'wuh(rhymes with 'the')
Alice uses this informal pronunciation style when she says:
'I wuz gunna meet a gorgeous manwuz gunna
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Now listen to Alice using more formal pronunciation.
'I was going to meet a gorgeous man.'
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'He wuz gunna be funny.' wuz gunna
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'He was going to be funny.'
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'.we wuh gunna get married and everything.' wuh gunna
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'we were going to get married and everything'
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For more information about pronunciation in connected speech, see the BBC Learning English pronunciation webpage
Vocabulary:
resolutions:
promises you make to yourself about how you are going to improve your life by changing your behaviour; people often make resolutions at New Year
to have high hopes:
to feel very positive and optimistic about the future of something
he had a skeleton in his closet:
he had a secret about something bad that happened in the past
that's that:
the situation is completed and can not be changed