WORDS OF TWO SYLLABLES - STRESS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S1 FIRST TERM

WEEK SEVEN

THEME: SPEECH

WORDS OF TWO SYLLABLES - STRESS

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Identify words stressed on the second syllable
2. Show correct stress on given words

CONTENT

The most straightforward syllable stress rules are for 2-syllable nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. Generally speaking, the following is true:

• 2-syllable nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are usually stressed on the first syllable
• 2-syllable verbs are usually stressed on the second syllable

Words with two syllables

• Party, special, today, quiet, orange, partner, table, demand, power, retrieve, doctor, engine, diet, transcribe, contain, cabbage, mountain, humour, defend, spacial, greedy, exchange, manage, carpet, although, trophy, insist, tremble, balloon, healthy, shower, verbal, business, mortgage, fashion, hover, butcher, magic, broken

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