Hello everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday homophone lesson.
Homophones are words that are pronounced exactly the same way.
They just have a different spellings and a different meaning. Our words today are complement
which is an expression of praise or admiration and compliment equality that completes something.
Here are words complement and compliment. I have a quick spelling tip for you. I would always get
confused about this and a friend told me to remember a compliment is about someone else
because it's about the I and I love that! I think that's an easy way to remember it.
So to say these words correctly, we have three beats or three syllables: com pluh munt.
I had a video not long ago on this m-e-n-t suffix and we usually pronounce it as
munt. If you do say ment or mint that's totally fine. People are going to understand
you. It's just about being short and unstressed in that last syllable. So
again, our beats are com pluh munt
com pluh munt compliment complement
complement compliment
And now for a sentence:
The beans and rice complement the meat so well that I had to compliment
the chef on a job well done.
So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference. Please
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