Pronouncing verbs and nouns

Learning English Vocabulary

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.5 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.2	To find out more, visit our website.
0:07.0	Six Minutes Vocabulary.
0:09.2	From BBC Learning English.
0:13.8	Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary.
0:16.9	I'm Catherine.
0:17.6	And I'm Neil.
0:22.5	Oh, Catherine. And I'm Neil. Oh, Catherine.
0:24.2	Yeah.
0:25.2	A present?
0:26.0	Yes.
0:26.5	How kind.
0:28.3	It's not even my birthday.
0:30.4	I know, Neil, but every day's a present day in learning English.
0:34.1	Actually, I bought it because the word present is a key word for the topic we're going
0:39.5	to present in this programme.
0:41.3	Ah, present and present.
0:45.3	Yes.
0:46.3	They're spelt the same way, but we say them differently.
0:49.3	That's right, because today we're talking about words that are spelt the same but pronounce differently
0:54.9	depending on whether we're using them as nouns or verbs.
0:59.0	Like present and present.
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