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English - Stress

 1. Can you pass me a plastic knife?


 A. PLAS-tic

 B. plas-TIC


2. I want to be a photographer.


 A. PHO-to-graph-er

 B. pho-TO-graph-er


3. Which photograph do you like best?


A. PHO-to-graph

B. pho-TO-graph


4. He was born in China.


 A. CHI-na

 B. Chi-NA


5. Whose computer is this?


 A. com-PU-ter

 B. com-pu-TER


6. I can't decide which book to borrow.


 A. DE-cide

 B. de-CIDE


7. Couldn't you understand what she was saying?


 A. un-DER-stand

 B. un-der-STAND


8. Voting in elections is your most important duty.


 A. im-POR-tant

 B. im-por-TANT


9. We had a really interesting conversation.


 A. con-VER-sa-tion

 B . con-ver-SA-tion


10. How do you pronounce this word?


 A. PRO-nounce

 B. pro-NOUNCE



Correct answers:

1. PLAS-tic

2. pho-TO-graph-er

3. PHO-to-graph

4. CHI-na

5. com-PU-ter

6. de-CIDE

7. un-der-STAND

8. im-POR-tant

9. con-ver-SA-tion

10. pro-NOUNCE



Rules of stress:

1. Stress the first syllable of:

Most two-syllable nouns (examples: CLImate, KNOWledge)

Most two-syllable adjectives (examples: FLIPpant, SPAcious)

2. Stress the last syllable of:

Most two-syllable verbs (examples: reQUIRE, deCIDE)

3. Stress the second-to-last syllable of:

Words that end in -ic (examples: ecSTATic, geoGRAPHic)

Words ending in -sion and -tion (examples: exTENsion, retriBUtion)

4. Stress the third-from-last syllable of:

Words that end in -cy, -ty, -phy and -gy (examples: deMOCracy, unCERtainty, geOGraphy, radiOLogy)

Words that end in -al (examples: exCEPtional, CRItical)

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