today's question is how do I pronounce variations of the word progress or to

make movement towards a goal so let's go ahead and take a look let me put my

notes down so we have the word progress and progress is the noun and we're going

to stress the word Pro progress progress the progress we're going to flip that

and if you've been watching my videos for a while you know there's a pretty

general rule that works most of the time then when we have a noun and we're going

to stress syllable one in a two syllable word and we have the exact same word

that's pronounced slightly differently when it's a verb we're going to stress

syllable number two so again syllable number one in the noun

progress and in the verb pro gress so we're going to stress the gress so to

stress something you're going to make it a little bit louder the vowel a little

bit longer and the pitch a little bit higher than the other syllables and the

word so we have progress and progress progress progress keep that in mind that

we're going to be stressing that second syllable when we add a lot of these

suffixes on to the word so when we add the ing I think where people get

confused is this has an extra syllable so we have progress progressing gress

Sing progressing but then when we have this ed you do not add an extra

syllable you're just gonna add a T to that second part of the word if you're

interested in more about this I do have several lessons on adding that ed

ending to the words so we have Pro gresst progressed so progress progressing

progressed last we have progression and I forgot to

underline this and we are going to stress that same syllable because it's a

syllable right before that shun progra shun and I think also people got really

confused because of the spelling and we are going to end this word in shun so

again stress syllable number two and then stress syllable number two and add

an extra beat with the ing stress syllable number two and just attach that t

sound that second syllable and then still stressed syllable number two and

end with tion when we see those two S's there okay let's give it a try so we

have progress progress progressing progressed progression progress progress

progressing per get progressed progression sorry about that this is

like a tongue twister one more time so I can get it correct progress progress

progressing progressed progression to make progress

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