Grammar Zone | Here vs. Hear and Where vs. Wear

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack explains the differences between here and hear and where and wear. Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the Edison English podcast. My name is Jack, and today I have a solo episode for you and we are in the grammar zone. 00:00:13 Jack And we are. 00:00:13 Jack Going to continue our lessons on homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same, but they are spelled differently. 00:00:25 Jack And today's homophone. 00:00:29 Jack Our home phones are here and here. 00:00:34 Jack And the spelling for the first one is here HERE. 00:00:39 Jack And this one indicates a place or a location. So for example, come here and sit down. 00:00:50 Jack UM, sometimes when we are meeting someone at A at a destination. 00:00:58 Jack We will send a text message and say I'm here. 00:01:02 Jack I'm here, meaning I'm here at the place where we are going to meet. 00:01:09 Jack And so that would always be HERE, here, here. 00:01:17 Jack Now there is. 00:01:20 Jack Another word. 00:01:22 Jack QRHEAR. 00:01:25 Jack Which sounds exactly like HERE. The pronunciations are exactly the same. 00:01:32 Jack OK here here. 00:01:34 Jack But HEAR. 00:01:38 Jack Refers to the act of perceiving sound, so. 00:01:44 Jack Hearing sound right and you can see you. It's in the word hearing, right? 00:01:51 Jack The the ability or the act of sound going into your ear. 00:02:06 Jack Sound waves going into your ear. 00:02:09 Jack Or into your ears and creating sound for you. That is the act of hearing. 00:02:17 Jack The act of hearing. And so you could ask someone this question, can you hear the music, you might say to someone listen. 00:02:28 Jack Can you hear the music? And maybe there's there is some softly playing music. 00:02:35 Jack In the distance. 00:02:38 Jack OK. Or the music is too loud? 00:02:43 Jack I can't hear you. 00:02:46 Jack OK. Or speak more loudly please, because I can't hear you. That's HEAR. 00:02:57 Jack So there there are two homophones here and here. 00:03:02 Jack And I'm going. 00:03:03 Jack To do 2 more uh. To make this episode a little bit longer, this would be a really short episode. If we only do here. 00:03:11 Jack So let's. 00:03:11 Jack Do where and where. 00:03:14 Jack OK, so where and where? 00:03:16 Jack Where WHERE? Asks about a place or a location for example. Where did you go? 00:03:26 Jack Ohh, I went to America. 00:03:30 Jack Where the place? What place did you go? OK. Location or place? Where are you? 00:03:38 Jack You could send again like that text message. 00:03:41 Jack Where are you? I'm here. I'm at the place where we are meeting. I'm here. 00:03:48 Jack I'm next to. 00:03:49 Jack The subway. Ohh OK. 00:03:54 Jack The second one where WEAR. 00:03:58 Jack 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. 00:04:09 Jack Clothes would be you're wearing shirts and pants and socks and underwear and a hat. 00:04:15 Jack OK. 00:04:17 Jack Wearing clothes. 00:04:19 Jack Or wearing accessories. 00:04:22 Jack For example. 00:04:24 Jack I like to wear hats. 00:04:27 Jack And this is something that I really love. I love to wear hats. I have a lot of baseball caps. 00:04:35 Jack I always wear a baseball cap. 00:04:39 Jack So I love to wear hats. I love to wear hats, so wear wear here and here. 00:04:49 Jack And hopefully that is helpful for you. 00:04:55 Jack And if you want to contact me in on e-mail with some example sentences. 00:05:02 Jack You can contact me at A-Z, englishpodcast@gmail.com. 00:05:07 Jack Or you could join our WhatsApp group in the AZ WhatsApp group. You can give me some examples of here, here, where and where. 00:05:17 Jack And if you would, if you're part of our WeChat group, you can also leave some examples in our WeChat group and I'll try to read those and get back to you with my responses. 00:05:29 Jack And with that said, we will see you next time. Thanks everybody. Bye b