Pronouncing verbs and nouns
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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'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-minute 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 is 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. Ah, present and present. Yes. They're spelt the same way, but we say |
| 0:48.1 | them differently. That's right, because today we're talking about words that are spelt the |
| 0:53.1 | same, but pronounced differently depending on whether we're using 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. |
| 1:01.8 | So the present you gave me is a noun. |
| 1:05.0 | That's right. |
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