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

Is it because of my ears or is there really not much difference? Your ears. How important is the difference in the pronunciation of all these ending voiced /z/, devoice /z/ and /s/. It's very important. Well, the difference between /s/ and

Milky wrote: CalifJim wrote: A native tells me that it does occur in such as the second example. The native must have misunderstood the question. Does it No. , and if it does, why? And is it widespread? No. "gonna" has to be followed by a

Hi! The gurus here are going to kill me for this, but I believe that with elementary students the important thing is to teach the really different ending sound which is /id/ . The difference between /t/ and /d/ is slight and does not impair

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote: I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even

Hi, 1. When we are using adjecitves like "different" in front of variable?? nouns like pronunciation and language, is it always the case that the countable part of their variable nature will be used like this? Generally speaking, yes.

To tell you the truth, Paco, I interpret your results as meaning that website posters don't much care which form of the verb they use-- and why should they?-- the message is clear, all the same. Just as 'I ain't got no peanut butter' is a clear