Learn the English Heteronym DOVE with Pronunciation and Practice Sentences

Hello, everyone.

My name is Fiona.

Today, we're going to be looking at these two words.

And knowing the difference is really going to help your English pronunciation and language skills.

Keep watching to find out what it is.

Let's begin.

First, I'm going to say the sentence really quickly.

So you have to listen carefully.

Are you ready?

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

Oh-ho, that one's tough, I know.

So I'll slow down.

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

Did you get it?

Okay, I'll show you the sentence.

Here we go.

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

What two words go in these blanks?

Well, the answer is,

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

They look like the same word. I know, I know.

But there are two different words, I promise.

Okay, Let's have a look at our two words a little bit closer.

We have ‘dove’ and ‘dove’.

They're spelled the same way, but the pronunciation and the meaning is different.

It's a Heteronym.

What's a Heteronym?

Well, it's where we have two words that are spelled the same,

but have different meanings and different pronunciations.

Let's look at the meaning and pronunciation of our two words.

First is ‘dove’.

‘dove’ is a noun.

It's a small white bird, similar to a pigeon.

You might see many in the sky.

And I have two sentences to show you this in use.

‘I saw a dove fly in the sky.’

I saw a dove, a small bird, fly in the sky.

And sentence number two.

‘The poor dove flew into the window.’

Oh dear.

The small bird, white bird, flew into the window.

Okay, let's practice pronunciation.

Repeat after me.

‘dove’

‘dove’

Okay, let's look at our second word.

‘dove’ ‘dove’ is a verb.

It's past tense, so already happened of ‘dive’.

‘dive’ means to suddenly and steeply go down into something.

Could be the air.

Sometimes, it's water.

Okay, let's have a look at two sentences to show this.

Number one.

‘The airplane dove to avoid hitting the other airplane.’

The airplane went down suddenly in the air to avoid hitting another airplane.

And sentence number two,

'She dove into the swimming pool.'

She jumped steeply into the swimming pool.

She went down into the water.

Okay, let's look at pronunciation.

Repeat after me.

‘dove’

‘dove’

Now, let's look at our main sentence again.

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

‘The dove, the small white bird, dove, went down steeply, into the lake.’

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

Okay, let's practice pronunciation together.

First, we'll go slow.

Are you ready?

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

Now faster like a native speaker.

‘The dove dove into the lake.’

Well done.

Great job, guys.

You got some awesome listening and pronunciation practice in today.

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