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  • hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech we've got a great question today the

  • words are bass the fish bass the guitar and base

  • the bottom of something let's go ahead and take a look at these words

  • so we have some heteronyms here what are those you don't even have to know the

  • word it's basically words that are spelled the same but

  • pronounced differently with different meanings and that's what we

  • have here so this is bass the fish and bass

  • the guitar so we have bass to say this word correctly you're going

  • to start with the b b move to wide open mouth for that

  • ah sound think of a wide circle shape and then end with that

  • s sss to do that tip of the tongue is either pointed down to the bottom of the mouth

  • or behind the top front teeth which is not touching and that air keeps moving

  • bass bass bass this is opposed to

  • base with the long a and bass the guitar and base the bottom are pronounced

  • exactly the same way yes they are spelled differently so we

  • have b a and to say that long a

  • sound what you're going to do is open your mouth into a wide

  • circle and then smile a that's going to help your tongue move

  • from low in your mouth to high and flat a

  • base base base so we have bass bass

  • bass base base base bass base

  • bass base and now for a sentence the bass guitarist sat at the base of

  • the statue in the hopes that he could get the bass

  • to come close to shore give it a try i know people are going to notice the

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