Proper Pronunciation Guide
it’d
[
ɪ 
əd]
Tips:
- Pronounce this contraction as two syllables, placing a schwa vowel /ə/ between “t” and “d.”
- Pronounce the letter “t” as a lightly tapped /d/ in quick speech because it occurs between two vowels in pronunciation.
Practice Sentences:
| It'd be nice to go to a film this evening. | |
| It'd been nice seeing them yesterday. |
Definition:
A contraction for either “it would” (when “it’d” is followed by a present tense verb, as in the first practice sentence) or “it had” (when “it’d” is followed by the past participle of a verb, thereby indicating the past perfect tense, as in the second practice sentence).
Notes:
The reason for inserting the schwa vowel /ə/ between the “t” and the “d” in the pronunciation of this contraction is, very simply, because a “d” cannot follow a “t” in pronunciation—except where the “t” ends a word and a “d” begins the next word, in which case the “t” is stopped-but-not-exploded /t̚ / and the air is then released on the following /d/ as in “it did” [ɪt̚dɪd].