The key answer of exercise 8
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5B - How was it? for the textbook Roadmap A2 - Student's Book with authors Lindsay Warwick and Damian Williams from Pearson Education
Question
Listen to the sentences. Are was and were usually stressed?
Answer
was and were aren't usually stressed in positive sentences and questions, was is pronounced /waz/ . were is pronounced /wa/ . These are weak forms and feature the schwa sound. wasn't and weren't usually stressed. They don't have weak forms.