美式英语正音训练第38期:Exercise 1-47 Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs

 　　Exercise 1-47:

　　Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs

　　A different change occurs when you go from an adjective or a noun to a verb.

　　The stress stays in the same place, but the -mate in an adjective is completely reduced [-m't], whereas in a verb, it is a full [a] sound [-mεit].

　　Repeat

　　advocate to advocate

　　animate to animate

　　alternate to alternate

　　appropriate to appropriate

　　approximate to approximate

　　articulate to articulate

　　associate to associate

　　deliberate to deliberate

　　discriminate to descriminate

　　duplicate to duplicate

　　elaborate to elaborate

　　an estimate to estimate

　　graduate to graduate

　　intimate to intimate

　　moderate to moderate

　　predicate to predicate

　　separate to separate