Name: How to Pronounce COMBINE & COMBINE - American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2022-11-13T18:40:15.000Z
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Hello Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your  heteronym lesson of the week. Heteronyms  

Basic passive voice

are words that are spelled the same but they have  different meanings and different pronunciations.    

We have a word today. There is our word.  And we have two definitions of course. We  

have combine which is a threshing machine  and combine which means to put together.

So let's start with the sounds that are the  same in each word. We have that K and that M.  

So let's start with combine. To say this word,  you're going to start with that k sound. Tip of  

the tongue is low, back of the tongue is pulled  high up, air Puffs out of the mouth. Keep your  

tongue in the same spot and just open your  mouth more - oh - for that oh vowel. cah cah

Then close the mouth completely. Lips together  air moves out of the nose for the m. com com com

Next we're going to move to that b - b. Your  lips are closed and they open. Air Puffs out.  

Then we're going to move to the long i. To  do that, open wide. Tip of the tongue is  

low. Back of the tongue is pulled high up. Move  to smiling lips as the tongue flattens out - I.

Keep going with that tongue. Touch the tongue to  the back of the top front teeth, specifically,  

to where the teeth meet the skin on the roof  of the mouth for the n - nnnnn. Air moves out  

Yes, I am stressing syllable number one here. Our  rule pertains. Syllable number one is typically  

stressed in nouns and syllable number two in  verbs when they are heteronyms. A stressed  

syllable is louder, longer, and higher; and the  unstressed syllable is shorter, softer, and lower.

Next for combine, since syllable  number one is unstressed,  

we're going to have that short uh sound,  the schwa sound in there. cum cum cum

So the difference here is you're not opening  your mouth wide for that oh. It's just relaxed  

and open, tongue is relaxed in the middle  of the mouth for that short uh. cum cum

But this time the bin is  stressed. combine combine combine

And now for a sentence: I'm having a really hard time  

thinking about how to use combine and combine  in a sentence. So why don't you give it a try  

and give me a sentence with those words. And  if you found this helpful please leave us  

a comment give us a share and a like and if  you need help check us out at Tarle speech.