This simple word can make you sound more like a native speaker of English!

This simple word can make you sound more like a native speaker of English!

How to Say "OF" Naturally in English

How to pronounce the preposition "OF"

The preposition "OF" sounds in two different sounds according to the word which comes after it, either we drop it and pronounce like "a" sound or we pronounce it as "ov" sound. We then depend on its pronunciation according to what follows it.

1 - If it is followed by a hard consonant

A hard consonant like "t" or "d" or "p" or "k" whatever, we don't drop the "f" so much, we leave the "v" sound or pronounce "a"

A lot of people

A lot of time

When it is followed by "th" we have many ways in pronouncing it:

Some of them

If you want to keep the "th" drop the "v" sound of "f"

If you want to drop the "v" keep the "th"

And generally we don't have them together

2 - If it is followed by "h"

Some of whom

Turns in fast English as: soma voom

A lot of help

Turns in fast English as: a law to vhelp

Get rid of him

Turns in fast English as: ri dovim

3 - If it is followed by a vowel

The rest of our day

It turns in fast English as: res Tovar day

100 percent of every

It turns in fast English as: percent tovery

A lot of attention

It turns in fast English as: alotava tention

4 - If you have a word ends with "f" before it

Half of the class

It turns in fast English as: ha vaf the

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