"This permit permits you to drive."

NY drivers permit sample
Sample NY drivers permit

Many words shift stress to change between noun and verb, such as 

record
protest, 
permit, 
graduate, 
and elect .

The noun can also function as an adjective or form part of a compound noun.



  1. The recording artist records his records at a recording studio. 
  2. Those protestors protest the student protests with a counter-protest.
  3. The drivers permit permits you to drive with or without parent permission.
  4. The graduate student finally was graduated from Columbia graduate school at a graduation ceremony on the campus where my father graduated.
  5. The electors elected the elected official during the election. 
From what I have studied, stress is a perceptual construct mediated by loudness, vowel quality, pitch, and duration. The listener's native language can color how that listener perceives each of these acoustic elements. See https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2014_JSLHR-L-13-0279  (2014)
Acoustic cues to perception of word stress by English, Mandarin, and Russian speakers

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See this note on whether "graduate" is a transitive or intransitive verb:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/graduated-or-was-graduate"Noah Webster defined the verb in both the transitive and the intransitive senses in his 1828 dictionary, and we have many, many examples of writers and speakers using the intransitive graduate over the last 200 years"

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