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The double 'ee retains the long e sound. However, in the word great, the e is silent, so it sounds just the same as grate.

They installed a grate over a great big drainage ditch.


My sister thought I would grate the cheese, but doing the work wasn't so great.


I wanted to greet the homeless man who slept on a heating grate.



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