Modifies

Language Study

Pronunciation

WAYS OF PRONOUNCING WORDS WITH "O"

1. Mind the types of pronouncing the letter “o”

[ɔ:u]	[ɔ]	[ɔ:]
go hotel ocean zone	spot lot fond	sport explore more

2. But very often the letter “o’ is pronounced [^] before the letters m, n, th, and v.

money London done

some come Mom

brother mother other

government gloves above

3. The letter “o” with other vowels is pronounced in many different ways

o + o:

[u]	[u]	[^]	[ɔ:]	[əʊ]
soon spoon room	book took cook	blood flood flood	floor door	moor boor poor

o + u

[ɔ:]	[u:]	[^]	[аʊ]	[oʊ]	[əʊ]
court bought	should soup	tough rough	doupt country	know though	tour bourgois

Ex. 13. Listen to and say after the speaker.

House, allow,wooden, soon, food, school, stool, pool, smooth, proof, show, shoulder, flow, know, below, blow, soul, courtesy, touch, outstanding, resound, cloud, clown, mouse, council, now, how, town, down, crowd, announce, souvenir, country, cough, enogh, tough, drought, bought, couch, famous, tremendous, colour, power, tower, shower, coat, board, poet, note.

Ex. 14. The following groups of four words are all spelt with ou. Underline the word with different pronunciation in the line. Listen and check.

1. your 2. would 3. discount 4. drought

neighbour should country ought

pour shoulder bought brought

court about four thoroughly

Ex. 15. Read the Proper Names. Listen and check.

1. Russian Empire 2. St Petersburg 3. Europe 4. Asia 5. Atlantic Ocean 6. Urals 7. Caucasus 8. Siberia 9. Eurasia

10. Kremlin 11. China 12. Irtysh 13. Hermitage 14. St Isaac Cathedral 15. St Basil’s Cathedral 16. Baltic Sea 17. Russ’ 18. Byzantine

1. It is important to distinguish between 2 kinds of adjectives – limit and graduable.

Limit adjectives have very strong meaning

e.g. exhausted means “very tired”

delicious means “very tasty”.

So it sounds unusual to say “very exhausted ”or” very delicious”.

Graduable adjectives express qualities existing in different strength

· person can be more or less tall, more or less attractive

· thing can be more or less big, or more or less dirty.

2. So we can use modifiers like fairly, quite, very, extremely with graduable adjectives like attractive, big, dirty, tired.

3. To modify limit adjectives we need extreme modifiers like absolutely, completely, quite, utterly

e.g. absolutely huge

completely terrified

quite perfect

utterly ridiculous.

4. Some modifiers go together, but some do not. It’s better to learn them. The best advice is, if you are in doubt, to use absolutely, which can go with all limit adjectives.

5. Quite, rather, pretty

Quite + limit adjective = “absolutely”

e.g. quite right

quite sure

Quite + gradable adjective = positive idea, neutral, negative

Positive: quite ' good

Neutral: ' quite ' good (equal stress)

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