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  • These are glasses and these are also glasses. Someone told me that these are also called

  • glasses and these are also called glasses. You know there are more words like that in

  • English? Which have same pronunciation sometimes but they always have the same spelling and

  • different meanings, how will you know which word means what? Don’t worry I’m here,

  • my name is Michelle and I'm going to help you learn homonyms in English, so stay tune

  • with me for new homonyms that you're learning today.

  • So we have some sentences here on the

  • board and you have a task today in this lesson, you'll have to find out which words have the

  • same spelling, it's not a very difficult task, isn't it? So all let's look at the first sentence

  • so which two words have the same spelling in this sentence? Of course these two words,

  • right? But they have different meanings and also different pronunciations. Let me speak

  • out the sentence for you, “the bandage was wound around the wound” I pronounce this

  • word as it is written wound, but this one is pronounced as wound. So what do we mean

  • by the word, ‘wound’? Have you heard of the wordwind’, which is a verb, wind

  • means to tie something around something, to wind somethingthis is simply a past tense

  • or a past participle for the verbwind’, for the verb wind. And a wound as you would

  • know or if you don't know then a wound is an injury or maybe a cut that you have somewhere

  • on your body whenever you get hurt. Sowoundis an injury, right, and wound is also a noun.

  • So as you can see that, this one here is a verb and this one is a noun but they have

  • same spelling but different meanings and also different pronunciations, so be careful with

  • their use, do not mix them up. Let's read the next sentence, first find out the words

  • that have the same spelling, you may have already done that, these two words so, “he

  • could lead, if he would get the lead out”, what does that mean? So you might have heard

  • of the wordlead’, this is a verb again. So lead means to show someone the way or to

  • guide someone. So my friend Marc, he could lead but only if he would get the lead out

  • but what is lead? So a lead is a heavy metal, it's actually the heaviest metal and it is

  • a noun and we pronounce this word as /l-e-d/ and this one as, /l-e-e-d/ so this is pronounced

  • as lead, he could lead if he would get the lead out, this means that he could lead us

  • if he could be a bit more faster, if he could get the metal out of his body and get faster

  • he could lead all of us, soto get the lead outis a phrasal verb. Right, so let's

  • look at the next sentence that we have, “the soldier decided to desert his dessert in the

  • desertor that's almost like a tongue twister, isn't it? Let's look at these two words, so

  • in this sentence the homonyms are these two and not this one because it has a different

  • spelling, so let's not get into this one right now but otherwise dessert is basically a sweet

  • dish or you know sweet item that you eat. So let's look at the first one, “the soldier

  • decided to desert…” we are stressing this word on the second syllable we're pronouncing

  • it as /di-zert/ ‘desertmeans to leave something so when you have a duty to fulfill

  • and you do not fulfill it, that's when you desert it. So if a husband leaves his wife,

  • he's deserting her or abandoning her, it means same as abandoning. ‘The soldier decided

  • to desert his dessert in the desert’. So this one is pronounced differently, here the

  • stress is on the first syllable we do not call it /di-zert/ we call it /de-zert/ and

  • desert is a noun. Desert is a very common word an arid area where there is no water

  • and there's a lot of sand, I didn't need to explain that though. So we have a verb here

  • and a noun there. Same spelling but different meaning and different pronunciation because

  • we are stressing at different syllables. Let's look at the fourth sentence, “since there

  • is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present”. Sono

  • time like the presentwith the stress on the first syllable, present means the time

  • that is going on right now and it's a noun, time that is going on, and he thought it was

  • time to present the present, so present, what do we mean by present? Present means to offer

  • something to somebody. But here the stress is on the second syllable, ‘he thought it

  • was time to present the presentand this present actually means a gift, a wrapped gift

  • that you would like to offer to someone. A gift and this is also a noun. But to present

  • something which means to offer something is actually a verb. Right. Now we move on to

  • the next sentence that we have, “I did not object to the objectas you can hear I

  • pronounced them differently because of the word stress, I repeat myself, “I did not

  • object to the object”. So the stress here is on the second syllable ‘I did not object…’

  • Object means to disagree with something. Let's find out what I did not disagree with, I did

  • not disagree or ‘I did not object to the object’, so object could be anything that

  • you can see or touch, like a marker or a chair if you do not object to an object this means

  • you are agreeing with it or you like it, to the object, this is a noun. So to disagree

  • with something is obviously a verb but tobut an object that you can see or touch is

  • a noun and it stressed on the first syllable. The next sentence that we have, “the insurance

  • was invalid for the invalid.” I'll repeat, ‘the insurance was invalid for the invalid’,

  • so here I stress on the syllable in the middle invalid. So invalid is something which is

  • not applicable anymore, not applicable. Who do you think insurance will not apply to?

  • I believe to a person who is very, very sick, so a person who is sick is called aninvalid

  • with the stress on the first syllable, ‘a sick personand this is a noun and this

  • is an adjective. So /in-VA-lid/ and /IN-v-lid/. The next sentence that we have is, “there

  • was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.” So there was a ‘row’, this word is a noun

  • but what does it mean to have a row? ‘To have a rowmeansto have a quarrel

  • or a disagreement with someone. So if you have a verbal disagreement or an argument

  • with someone that is, ‘having a row’. To have a quarrel. So there was a quarrel

  • among the oarsmen…, oarsmen are people who row the boat, okay? And they were having a

  • disagreement about how to row, this is also same as this row, but it does not mean the

  • same thing. To row means to propel the boat or to move the boat. To move the boat in the

  • water using propellers. And to move the boat is of course a verb and this one is a noun

  • which means to have a quarrel. But be careful this one has the same pronunciation, both

  • of them. So you need to be utterly careful because their same pronunciation, same spelling,

  • but different meanings. Now we look at the next sentence that we have, “they were too

  • close to close the door.” So the first onetoo close’, when someone is too close

  • to you it means they're very near to you, in space, someone is standing next to you

  • means they're very close to you, very near. So this marker is too close to me, it's very

  • near to me, this is an adjective. Something which is close to you it's an adjective. But

  • they were too close to close the doorso if someone is just standing next to the

  • door, maybe they are not able to close the door. So this close means to shut the door

  • which is now a verb. So again it's time to be very careful becauseclose’, ‘close

  • have same pronunciation, same spelling but entirely different meanings. Right, so the

  • next sentence that we have is, “the buck does funny things when the does are present.”

  • You must have guessed which words are we talking aboutdoesanddoes’. You might

  • be thinking what aredoes’, but to tell you that I'll first tell you what a ‘buck

  • is, so a buck is a ‘male deeror an antelope anddoesis a female deer but in plural

  • they are calleddoes’. Female deer and of course deer is a noun. And this one here

  • thebuck does…’ does is the second person fordoas you would know, for

  • the verbdo’. So you know when you read the sentence you might be really confused,

  • but you can obviously understand when I pronounce it, that this is /du-z/ and this is /do-s/.

  • Let's look at the last sentence that we have, “upon seeing, the tear in the painting,

  • I shed a tear.” So I'm pronouncing these two words very differently. This is a very

  • common mistake we end up pronouncing both of these words in the same manner, but they're

  • pronounced differently. ‘Upon seeing the tear, /t-a-i-r/ is how I would pronounce it,

  • but I'd write it of course like that. Soupon seeing the tear in the painting…’ tear

  • is when something is cut into parts or something is you know there's a cut in the painting

  • that's when I saytearand it is a verb. Soupon seeing a tear in the painting

  • I was so sad that ‘I shed a tear’, ‘tearis like obviously you know what it tears and

  • you're crying, or when youre sad, there’s water floating out of your eyes. So I would

  • pronounce this as /t-e-e-r/, so /t-a-i-r/ and /t-e-e-r/, this one being a noun and this

  • one being a verb, yeah, already written that for you. So you've seen all these sentences

  • and you've learned a lot of homonyms, these are the words you need to be very careful

  • about when you're speaking, reading or writing or maybe even listeningsome areas of frequent

  • errors by native speakers, non-native speakers almost everyone. So I hope this is really

  • helpful for you, come back for more lessons with me, bye-bye

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