By Accents, Nouns

The noun, in the first sentence, has the accent on the first syllable. PRAW-gress. (American pronunciation) The verb, in the second sentence, has the accent on the second syllable. pruh-GRESS. (Also American) Did you mean pronunciation, or did you mean something else?

Hi,#1. Since accent is a countable noun, we need 'a' for both heavy accent and heavier accent.#2. I prefer 'hesitancy in responding'.Besides the above comments, both sentences have a run-on problem. There are more than one way to reword them; and here is my suggestion:Student1 had...

Hi Jim, I noticed this, and remembered something I read on that book, "American Accent Training". I didn't pay much attention to that part, because I then found out that there were a lot of exceptions, so many that it made no sense to consider any rules. CalifJim wrote: a palm-planted COURTyard ...

Hi,I remeber I once read (in Amercan Accent Training) that when you say what your name is, like "My name is Earl", you should stress "my", not "name". I'd never heard that... and I was surprised, since here in Italy every teacher makes you say "My name ease Earl", stress on name and Earl, lol.I...

Dear all, All passages below are from “Crazy English” – by Richard Lederer, POCKET BOOKS. (I tried to find an Internet link, but failed. So please pardon me for the length of the text, which I believe would be very informative). “HETERONYMS – words with same spelling as other words but...

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I see you didn't get it. I will repeat it again. Accents and intonation aren't the same things. You can emphasize something without speaking a perfect accent, let's say American one. Just rise a pitch of your voice at the right place. This doesn't depend on a concrete...

You have take into account different accents for one thing. Also, people in real life tend not to speak perfectly all the time. We mutter, we slur our words, we change our minds about what we are saying half way through, we stammer, we stutter, we have speech impediments, we are eating while we...

Before I tell you any advice, I think that you should know that some Amercans find an accent incredibly sexy. I can understand that you want to blend in, but don't beat your self upabout it if you can't completely perfect your accent.Okay, now, to improve your accent I think it might be...

The words listed below have the property you're talking about, Maple. Compared to the thousands of verbs in the English language, there really aren't that many. Yet, when faced with the list, it is a lot of words to learn! This is not an exhaustive list. Maybe others can add to...