Pronunciation of great

Pronunciation of the English word great.

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Pronounce great in English


great in a sentence

# Sentence  
1. The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.
2. My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a bricklayer and died in seventeen seventy-four, at the age of forty.
3. My grandmother's mother is my "great grandmother," so my great grandmother's mother is my "great great grandmother"? Is that right?
4. No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort.
5. Tom's great-great-great grandmother lived in Scotland.
6. Even though great men flatter themselves with their great accomplishments, they're rarely the result of great planning, but more often of mere chance.
7. Tom was my great-great-great-grandfather.
8. My father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had the same name as I have.
9. Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
10. Who will be the first to live until the birth of his great-great-great-grandson?

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