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Hey everybody Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
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today's question is how do I pronounce the word object which is a thing and
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object which is to express disapproval this word is spelled exactly the same
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and the meanings and the pronunciation are different and so this word is called
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a heteronym that's not important that you know that but what is important is
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that you know how to say these words differently so let's take a look I'm
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going to give you a simple rule today I've actually talked about this before
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and this rule is is that when a two syllable word is spelled the same but
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pronounced differently based on whether it's a noun or a verb for the noun
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because nouns typically come first in a sentence we're going to remember that we
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are going to stress that first syllable as opposed to the verb which oftentimes
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in English comes as the second word in a sentence because we say subject verb
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object we are going to stress syllable number two
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so again syllable number one we are going to stress for the noun and
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syllable number two we are going to stress for the verb so what does stress
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a syllable mean that means that we are going to make that syllable louder the
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vowel longer and the pitch higher and then we're going to do the opposite and
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the unstressed syllable we're going to make it softer shorter and lower and
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pitch so let's try these two words and we're just going to focus on the word
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stress today so for word number one you're going to say object object and
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for word number two when it's a verb we're going to say object object so we
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have object and object so let's give those a try object object object object
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object object object object the teachers may object to having this object on
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display the teachers may object to having this object on display give it a
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try I know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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