Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack and today I have a solo episode for you and we are in the grammar zone and we are going to continue our lessons on homophones.
Homophones are words that sound the same but they are spelled differently and today's homophone or homophones are here and here.
And the spelling, the first one is here, H -E -R -E.
And this one indicates a place or a location.
So, for example, come here and sit down.
Sometimes when we are meeting someone at a destination, We will send a text message and say, I'm here.
I'm here, meaning I'm here at the place where we are going to meet.
And so that would always be H -E -R -E, here, here.
Now, there is another word here, H -E -A -R, which sounds exactly like h -e -r -e the pronunciations are exactly the same okay here here but h -e -a -r refers to the act of perceiving sound so hearing sound right you can see it's in the word hearing right the The ability or the act of sound going into your ear
and or sound waves going into your ear or into your ears and creating sound for you.
That is the act of hearing.
The act of hearing.
and so you could ask someone this question can you hear the music you might say to someone listen can you hear the music and maybe there's there is some softly playing music in the distance okay or the music is too loud I can't hear you okay Or speak more loudly, please, because I can't hear you.
That's H -E -A -R. So there are two homophones, here and here.
And I'm going to do two more to make this episode a little bit longer.
This would be a really short episode if we only do here.
So let's do where and where.
Okay, so where and where.
Where, W -H -E -R -E, asks about a place or a location.
For example, where did you go?
Oh, I went to America.
Where, the place, what place did you go?
Okay, location or place.
Where are you? You could send, again, like the text message.
Where are you? I'm here.
I'm at the place where we are meeting.
I'm here. Where? I'm next to the subway.
Oh, okay. The second one, where w -e -a -r refers to putting on clothes or accessories.
Accessories would be like you wear a necklace or you can wear earrings or you can wear rings.
Clothes would be you're wearing shirts and pants and socks and underwear and a hat.
Okay. Wearing clothes or wearing accessories.
For example, I like to wear hats.
And this is something that I really love.
I love to wear hats.
I have a lot of baseball caps.
I always wear a baseball cap.
So I love to wear hats.
I love to wear hats.
So wear, wear, hear, and hear.
And hopefully that is helpful for you.
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Thanks, everybody. Bye -bye.
Thank you. Thank you.