Examples of weak form

• The strong form is appropriate for verbs and the weak form for both nouns and adjectives.

• The weak form only occurs before consonants, and is usually pronounced /s/.

• Second, ' what ' questions involving the weak form necessarily involve overt movement.

• A weak form of a preposition followed by silence points to a hesitation break.

• It is the contrast among the members of the same morphosemantic family which fosters the association between adjectives/nouns and the weak form.

• It depends on the verb if the infinitive is in the strong or weak form.

• These were declined as strong adjectives, usually with no weak form.

• In the case of most words with such alternative forms, the weak form is much more common (since it is relatively rare for function words to receive prosodic stress).