Hello everyone, welcome back to the English Danny Channel.
I'm teacher John and I'm here to help you become great at learning English. In today's lesson
We're going to be talking about two things. We'll talk about
Abbreviated styles of writing and speech which have their own special grammar rules
to save space or time and
We'll also talk about
abbreviations and
acronyms
Okay, first, let's talk about when we use
Abbreviated styles of writing or we're speaking in English. The first thing isn't
Advertisements or also instructions small advertisements which we often call ads
often leave out articles or
subject and object pronouns forms of the verb be and
prepositions for example
Gold wanted for cash the verb be is left out
recipes which is a type of instruction also often have
Abbreviated styles and if you look at this example here
You can see that we leave out the verb be and we don't use any articles the second thing that we also use
Abbreviated styles for is when we take notes
for example
Went to grocery store
Back at 2:30
again
following the same rules previously
We don't use the verb be and we leave out articles or pronouns or things like that
We want this to be very short
that's why we use abbreviations the third example for when we use abbreviated styles is
For commentaries for example when someone is commentating about sports
They often have their own special style or grammar where they leave out the less important verbs
Here you can in this example
This would be typically what a sports commentator is saying during a soccer or football game
the fourth example of an abbreviated style in English is
for titles or labels
or even slogans of companies for example
Seaside hotel
Hollywood cinema bus stop best pizza in town
You can see that all of these things do not use articles do not have the be verbs
Okay, so we just cut them when we're using abbreviated styles. Okay. Now we're going to talk about
abbreviations and acronyms in
American English
we use a lot of abbreviations and acronyms because there are
very long names for a lot of things especially
When we talk about government or other different organizations, the names can be very long
So we often shorten them first. We will talk about punctuation when we abbreviate things in
American English whenever we abbreviate a word we put a period after it
for example
Mr
Doctor
Kilogram
Pound
Limited as in a limited company, the second thing that we will talk about is initial letter
abbreviations some abbreviations are made with the first letter of
Several words and this is often when it comes to an organization. For example, CNN
CNN is a news organization and
the name actually means
cable news network
UNESCO UNESCO
Is also an organization
But the name is very long it stands for
United Nations
Education scientific and cultural organization zatia notice that some abbreviations are pronounced letter by letter
such as
CNN or BBC
But others are pronounced like a separate word such as
UNESCO the ones that we pronounce as separate words are called
Acronyms the third thing that we will talk about is how to best pronounce these abbreviations
We often put stress on the final letter of the abbreviation
for example
us a
or
UK or
CNN or BBC
The fourth thing that we will talk about is using articles for abbreviations
Usually uh
and the are dropped when we use acronyms so our example
UNESCO, we just drop the we don't say duh. UNESCO just UNESCO
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