The rules of word stressXin giới thiệu bài viết của Mio79, một thành viên tích cực của diễn đàn dethi.com, về word stress.. RULE 1: two syllable words a noun/adj of 2 syllables: stress 1
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Xin giới thiệu bài viết của Mio79, một thành viên tích cực của diễn đàn dethi.com, về word stress
1 RULE 1: two syllable words
a) noun/adj of 2 syllables: stress 1st syllable
ex: student, table, sticker happy, random, courage
exceptions: machine, event
b) verbs of 2 syllables: stress 2nd syllable
ex: to admit, to intent, to construct
c) verbs of 2 syllables-ending with OW, EN, Y, EL, ER, LE, ISH :stress 1st syllable
ex: to open, to follow, to hurry, to struggle, to flatter, to finish
2 RULE 2: three or > three syllable words: stress 3rd syllable- counting backwards
ex: to celebrate, curriculum, to unify
exception: to develop, imagine, banana
3.RULE 3 : suffixes:
a) stress before CIV(consonant-I-vowel)
ex: australia, religious, physician
b) stress before IC
ex: titanic, panasonic, pacific
exceptions: rhetoric, lunatic, catholic, arithmetic, politics, Arabic
c) stress on the following ending syllábles: ADE, OO, OON, EE, EEN, EER, ESE, ISE, IZE, AIRE, SELF, ETTE, ESQUE
EX: pickaboo, millionaire, cocoon, analyze, engineer, themselves
d) stress before TION, TAL
ex: tradition, continental,
4 RULE 4: phrases:
4.1 noun phrases:
a) WH - to inf ; whether/if-to inf ; gerund+ obj :stress on the last word :
ex: what to do, learning english
b) compound nouns :
b1/ N+N , N+gerund , gerund+N: stress on 1st element
ex : river bank, coal mining, living room
b2/ N + adj : stress on N :
ex: a handsome and good man
b3/ N( possession, material, component) + N: stress on both of them:
ex : my father's book, wood chair, egg cake
4.2 adj / adv phrases : stress on the last word :
Trang 2ex : the book on the table, the girl standing over there, in the morning , by car
5 RULE 5 : sentences :stress on:
# verbs : the last verb
# nouns : the last noun
# adv
# complement
# before commas
# on reflexive pronouns
ex: I go to school and learn English
I do it myself
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