hey everyone Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question we have
another long question this week the question is how do I say the word
present a gift present to announce or give information presentation presented
and presenting so let's go ahead and jump right in because this is - all
right so for our noun our present we are going to stress syllable number one
stressed syllable number one and the second syllable is unstressed and then
in the word present when you're giving information the verb you are going to
stress syllable number two and to stress a syllable what do we do to stress a
syllable you make it louder higher in pitch and longer so the longer is going
to impact our vowel that's what I really want you to pay attention to so we have
a present because the second syllable is unstressed you're going to hear that
schwa sound that's short uh sound and then when we
have present again we're gonna have this schwa sound let me make that a schwa
sound for you so you can see that and I'll do that here to you were going to
have the schwa sound here and then the second vowel is going to be a little bit
longer present so we have present present now when we say the word
presentation our word stress is going to shift because of that tion and when we
have a tion ending the word stress is always the syllable before so we have
presentation presentation and then when we add the ed and the ing it's actually
going to add an extra syllable in both of these cases
so we're going to have presenting presenting and presented yes I did right
did here because when we end a word with a t we add that it and in this case
because we have that voice sound right behind it right before it we are going
to say did and voice that D from the t so let's give those all who try we have
present present presentation presenting presented so give it a try people are
going to notice the difference help me out leave a sentence with all of those
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